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24.3; Text and Cursor display

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From: Joseph Opseth <joseph.opseth <at> my.uwrf.edu>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.3; Text and Cursor display
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:43:39 +0000

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From: Joe <joseph.opseth <at> my.uwrf.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; Text and Cursor display
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I ran $emacs ~/perlfile.pl &
Another time $emacs ~/other.pl
After about an hour working (also switching between browser and music
player) emacs stopped rendering text properly. When I moved the cursor
it would not appear on whitespace. When I typed past a letter it would
sometimes show that letter as if the cursor was still on it and show the
real cursor too.  The last few deleted characters were displayed until I
typed over them.  Also, when entering a command in the mini-buffer the
beginning of previous commands would display until I typed over it.

This occurred in all my buffers and was not solved by reopening emacs or
redraw-display.

I logged out and back in and opened a text file in thunar and the cursor was
fine; I reopened the perl file and it's fine after editing and moving
around.  However the very first time this happened (with emacs23) it didn't go away until I upgraded.

I'm running Mint Olivia, Xfce desktop.  I also had this problem with emacs23 (.4 I believe) installed
from the mint software center.  I upgraded using the emacs24.3 package
at launchpad.net/~cassou/+archives/emacs.

Emacs in the terminal has no problems.  I'll stick with that for now -
thanks for reading this.


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In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
 of 2013-04-14 on marid, modified by Debian
System Description:    Linux Mint 15 Olivia

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 '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
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 --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall'
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ESC [ > 1 ; 2 8 0 2 ; 0 c ESC x r e p o r t - e m a
c s - b u g RET

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Message #8 received at 15063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Joseph Opseth <joseph.opseth <at> my.uwrf.edu>, 15063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#15063: 24.3; Text and Cursor display
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:24:38 -0700 (PDT)

It sounds like redisplay is not happening when it should.

FWIW:

If so, and in case it helps, I too have seen a lack of redisplay at
some times, with this build:

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2013-08-07 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 113750 lekktu <at> gmail.com-20130808011911-0jzpc9xuncegg6x9
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
 CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib
 CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'

If I notice anything more specific (e.g. context), I'll report it.

Message #11 received at 15063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 15063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15063: 24.3; Text and Cursor display
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:30:11 -0400

Joseph Opseth wrote:

> This occurred in all my buffers and was not solved by reopening emacs
> or redraw-display.

Drew Adams wrote:

> It sounds like redisplay is not happening when it should.

No, it doesn't sound like that.

If "reopening emacs" means restarting Emacs, it sounds like a graphics
driver bug (?).

Message #14 received at 15063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Joseph Opseth <joseph.opseth <at> my.uwrf.edu>
Cc: 15063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15063: 24.3; Text and Cursor display
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 01:54:43 +0100

Joseph Opseth <joseph.opseth <at> my.uwrf.edu> writes:

> I ran $emacs ~/perlfile.pl &
> Another time $emacs ~/other.pl
> After about an hour working (also switching between browser and music
> player) emacs stopped rendering text properly. When I moved the cursor
> it would not appear on whitespace. When I typed past a letter it would
> sometimes show that letter as if the cursor was still on it and show the
> real cursor too. The last few deleted characters were displayed until I
> typed over them. Also, when entering a command in the mini-buffer the
> beginning of previous commands would display until I typed over it.
>
> This occurred in all my buffers and was not solved by reopening emacs or
> redraw-display.

Are you still seeing this problem?

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