GNU bug report logs - #11484
23.4; Scrolling leaves traces of old text behind

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Packages: ns, emacs;

Reported by: Frank Marcoline <fvmarcoline <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 22:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.4

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 11484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 11484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#11484: 23.4; Scrolling leaves traces of old text behind
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:11:36 -0700

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On 10/21/2012 10:07 PM, Jan Djärv wrote:
> That isn't a very good solution now that I think about it, as it would
> require
a redraw of the whole line just to draw the cursor.

Are displays still slow enough that we have to care about graphics optimization
at this level? Any OS X system is compositing the whole window anyway. My sense
is that we could redraw the whole frame on every update without anyone noticing
a performance difference --- except over remote X11.


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