Re: Emacs 25.1 RC2 - sporadic display errors on Linux virtual terminal.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 08:17:24PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:53:38 +0000
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

> > > If you open a termscript file and then type, do you see the missing
> > > characters in the termscript file, which means they were sent to the
> > > screen?

> > No, the termscript file contained what I typed, not what I saw on the
> > screen.

> So this means Emacs writes the stuff correctly to the screen, and the
> problem happens between terminal driver (or its emulation) and the
> glass.

Yes, so it would seem.

Going back to an earlier question, I fired up both Emacs 24.5 and Emacs
25.1-rc1 without being able to reproduce the problem.  I tried both with
-Q and loading my full .emacs and desktop.  I've restarted Emacs
25.1-rc2, where I saw the problem.  I now can't reproduce it here,
either.

This suggests that Emacs gets "tired" after several hours, whatever that
might mean.  Perhaps a buffer is getting depleted somehow, or something
like that.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).