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24.3.92; term: slow ansi colors rendering

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From: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.92; term: slow ansi colors rendering
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:39:36 -0300

Some applications render quite slowly in emacs terminal emulator. One
example is alsamixer, which has a very simple ui. Another example is
mc. The editor of the beast, instead, works like a charm, at least in
its legacy incarnation. I think the issue is with the heavy use of ansi
colors by some applications.

I've read other similar bug reports saying that a number of errors
appear in the *Messages* buffer regarding missing colors or something
like that. Well, this is not the problem anymore. Everything works fine,
no errors are shown, it's just that the rendering is slow.

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In GNU Emacs 24.3.92.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.12.2) of
 2014-07-25 on localhost Windowing system distributor `The X.Org
 Foundation', version 11.0.11501000 Configured using: `configure
 --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
 'CFLAGS=-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong
 --param=ssp-buffer-size=4' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'

Important settings:
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Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

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Message #8 received at 18151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com
Cc: 18151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18151: 24.3.92; term: slow ansi colors rendering
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:32:49 +0100

carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com writes:

> Some applications render quite slowly in emacs terminal emulator. One
> example is alsamixer, which has a very simple ui. Another example is
> mc. The editor of the beast, instead, works like a charm, at least in
> its legacy incarnation. I think the issue is with the heavy use of ansi
> colors by some applications.

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

I tried reproducing this with:

emacs -Q
M-x term RET RET
alsamixer RET

and it rendered well for me in Emacs 28 on Debian/bullseye.

Are you still seeing this issue in more recent Emacs versions?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #13 received at 18151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com
Cc: 18151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18151: 24.3.92; term: slow ansi colors rendering
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 05:28:20 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> I tried reproducing this with:
>
> emacs -Q
> M-x term RET RET
> alsamixer RET
>
> and it rendered well for me in Emacs 28 on Debian/bullseye.
>
> Are you still seeing this issue in more recent Emacs versions?

More information was requested, but no response was given within a
month, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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