From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files Date: 24 Nov 2006 03:49:39 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1164368979.309609.307320@45g2000cws.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164391030 27573 80.91.229.2 (24 Nov 2006 17:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 24 18:57:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnfIM-00028D-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:57:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnfIM-0001NC-4O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:57:02 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!45g2000cws.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1164368987 8652 127.0.0.1 (24 Nov 2006 11:49:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:49:47 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 45g2000cws.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143314 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38930 Archived-At: August Karlstrom wrote: > Hi, > > When I open any binary file with Emacs in console mode (emacs -nw) the > display gets corrupted (the menu and parts of the mode line disappears). > In GUI mode it works as expected. I use GNU Emacs version 21.4.1 and > gnome-terminal 2.16.1 under Ubuntu 6.10. > > Any clues? Bits of the binary file being interpreted at terminal control characters is a likely culprit. If that is the problem then Emacs should not send such characters to the terminal. It may be a terminal problem though. I'd report it as an Emacs bug with that caveat.