diff --git a/doc/emacs/trouble.texi b/doc/emacs/trouble.texi index bd347b0..e049bd1 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/trouble.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/trouble.texi @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ Lossage * DEL Does Not Delete:: What to do if @key{DEL} doesn't delete. * Stuck Recursive:: '[...]' in mode line around the parentheses. * Screen Garbled:: Garbage on the screen. +* Slow Display:: Slow screen refresh. * Text Garbled:: Garbage in the text. * Memory Full:: How to cope when you run out of memory. * Crashing:: What Emacs does when it crashes. @@ -247,6 +248,25 @@ Screen Garbled entry, it is possible that there is a bug in the terminfo entry, or a bug in Emacs that appears for certain terminal types. +@node Slow Display +@subsection Slow screen refresh +@cindex display, slow +@cindex refresh, display slow +@cindex font, missing + + If the display is too slow in refreshing when you scroll to a new +region, or when you edit the buffer, it may be due to this that some +characters cannot be displayed in the default font, and Emacs is +spending too much time in looking for a suitable font to display them. + + You can suspect this if you have several characters that are +displayed as small rectangles containing a hexadecimal code inside. + + The solution is to install the appropriate fonts on your +machine. For instance if you are editing a text with a lot of math +symbols, then installing a font like @file{Symbola} should solve this +problem. + @node Text Garbled @subsection Garbage in the Text @cindex garbled text