From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jdavidboyd@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:18:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mwciklpv.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404998373 6284 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2014 13:19:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:19:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 15:19:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X5EFx-0006nn-Ek for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:19:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38012 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5EFw-0003tS-VX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42373) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5EFV-0003sv-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:19:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5EFP-00042F-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5EFP-000426-0D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X5EFN-0006IS-OM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:18:49 +0200 Original-Received: from www1.g9.pair.com ([66.39.4.53]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:18:49 +0200 Original-Received: from jdavidboyd by www1.g9.pair.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:18:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 65 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: www1.g9.pair.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z8nPN35WU7VndjebwrBtjp+hero= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98622 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Segundo Bob writes: > >> But this doesn't make emacs usable. Nothing is ever >> erased from the screen. Information is overwritten >> with new information, but when a new buffer is >> displayed the text beyond the text in the new buffer >> is still displayed. >> >> I have no idea which problem above to attack first. > > You have a bunch of error messages/warnings there so > you can start with them. > >> Loading 00debian-vars...done Loading >> >> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el >> (source)... Loading >> /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el >> (source)... Error while loading >> 50dictionaries-common: Symbol's value as variable is >> void: debian-aspell-only-dictionary-alist Loading > > I'm on Debian, and I have/use aspell, but I don't have > that (the alist) in the 50dictionaries-common file. > >> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50emacs-goodies-el.el >> (source)...done Loading >> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pylint.el (source)... >> Loading pylint...done Loading >> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pylint.el (source)...done >> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el >> (source)...done Loading >> /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50yasnippet.el (source)... >> flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either >> cl-flet' or `cl-letf'. (lambda (field1 field2) ...) >> quoted with ' rather than with #' `flet' is an obsolete >> macro (as of 24.3); use either cl-flet' or `cl-letf'. > > An "obsolete macro" shouldn't cause total havoc one > would think. > >> Package assoc is obsolete! Type C-x 1 >> to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help. > > Yeah, same there. > > All of that seems to relate to packages and/or the > installation of Emacs. Try not using any packages. Or > try reinstalling Emacs. What happens with 'emacs -Q'? It almost sounds as if you have the wrong terminal type selected, so that the code emacs sends to clear the screen isn't. Like suggested, start emacs with 'emacs -Q'. Then start a shell in emacs, and see what your terminal type is set to... For example, when I start a shell, and type echo $TERM, I get 'dumb', and it all works fine. Let us know. Dave