From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 23 display is problematic
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:14:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhcefsmi2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000301c8978c$d9b45970$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com)
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:20:57 -0700
>
> I hate to say it, but my experience so far with Emacs 23 is disappointing. The
> display seems, well, f***ed up. Frames that are not the last one displayed go
> blank or partially blank (even the selected frame, if not the last displayed);
> the scroll bar sometimes turns into only a narrow sliver; frames flash when I
> scroll; frame colors and other parameters are not correct; and so on.
>
> Besides display problems (or maybe it's also related to display - dunno), Emacs
> 23 is v e r y slow in general.
That is normal for a development version that had several radical
changes made in it, early in the development cycle. If you cannot
afford such problems, don't use the trunk version until it stabilizes.
> Anyway, I don't mean to be discouraging
Well, you are. So please don't be.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-06 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-06 2:20 emacs 23 display is problematic Drew Adams
2008-04-06 3:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-04-08 1:56 ` Kyle M. Lee
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