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address@hidden: Re: address@hidden: Scrolling down fails to refresh.]


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: address@hidden: Re: address@hidden: Scrolling down fails to refresh.]]
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 22:47:13 -0400

Is this really Windows-specific?  If so, would someone who works on
Windows please look at it?

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Subject: Re: address@hidden: Scrolling down fails to refresh.]
From: address@hidden (Gerd Moellmann)
Date: 04 Aug 2002 15:25:32 +0200
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Would you please look at this?
> He included a 3 meg screen capture, so I have deleted that;
> please tell me if you want it.
> 
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> Subject: Scrolling down fails to refresh.
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> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> 
> The following is a screen capture (Alt-Print Scrn) of Emacs as it scrolls 
> badly
> and does not
> refresh properly.  
> GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2002-03-19 on buffy
> If you cannot see the embedded picture, here's a description of the problem.
> 
> When I scroll down the window (Pull scrollbar down, that is) and there is a
> "Stay on Top"
> window overlapping the bottom of the emacs window
> (such as Rational Purify's "Purify Instrumentation" progress window, 
> or the Windows "Task Manager" window),  
> the graphics of the obscuring window are copied up as we scroll.  
> Sometimes they are erased in the end, sometimes not.
> (I say "scroll down" when the window goes down the file, the corresponding
> text appears to go up the screen.)
> 
> This can occur multiple times, until there is a "chatter" of wrongly-scrolled
> window parts.
> 
> I suspect this has something to do with the incorrect scrolling that occurs
> anyway.  
> This is when the size of the scroll bar is re-computed based on the number of
> characters 
> on-screen.  It should really be based on the number of lines.  I think that in
> the end it is, and
> it's the temporary "approximate" scrolling that is to blame.

That looks a lot like another report for Emacs on MS-Windows, for
which Jason said it was Windows-specific.
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