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From: "David M. Karr" <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs (nowindows) get confused about line display
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 14:28:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573F818A.9040604@gmail.com> (raw)

On my CentOS laptop, I have a CentOS VM that I created with Vagrant.  I 
have Emacs 24.3.1 on the VM.

I start a terminal window on the laptop and ssh to the VM.  I run Emacs, 
but I don't have X11, so it's in "no windows" mode.

Sometimes, when I start emacs on the VM, it starts up fine and displays 
properly.

Quite often, and pretty continuously when it gets into this state, it 
will start up with a blank editor view, with no menu bar, and the cursor 
displays on the SECOND line of the window.  When I then view or edit 
files, it appears that Emacs is confused about its line rendering.  The 
cursor appears at the bottom of the window, even though it "thinks" it's 
on the top line of the file I'm viewing.  I can scroll the cursor to the 
right, and it will jump back to the beginning when it reaches the length 
of the first line, and so on.

Emacs is completely useless in this state.

What can I do at this point?



             reply	other threads:[~2016-05-20 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-20 21:28 David M. Karr [this message]
2016-05-20 23:28 ` Emacs (nowindows) get confused about line display Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21  0:45   ` David M. Karr
2016-05-21  0:51     ` David M. Karr
2016-05-21  1:19       ` John Mastro
2016-05-21  6:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.9.1463791518.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-21  2:36     ` Emanuel Berg

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