From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 25.1 RC2 - sporadic display errors on Linux virtual terminal.
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:37:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y4338skc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160907181606.GH2145@acm.fritz.box> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:16:06 +0000)
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 18:16:06 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> > What buffer did you have in mind?
>
> I don't have any particular buffer in mind. I simply don't know this
> level of the software at all. (At least, not yet).
>
> Maybe there's some circular buffer somewhere which, when it becomes
> full, spuriously outputs a space to the screen. The buffer might well
> not be in Emacs. Can a circular buffer gradually (over hours) become
> smaller? That seems a bit unlikely.
You are probably talking about something that happens in the terminal
emulator or driver. Emacs simply uses fwrite to send the text and
tputs to send termcap/terminfo commands to the terminal. You can see
that in term.c.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-07 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-07 15:59 Emacs 25.1 RC2 - sporadic display errors on Linux virtual terminal Alan Mackenzie
2016-09-07 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 16:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-09-07 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 17:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-09-07 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 18:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-09-07 18:24 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-07 18:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-09-07 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-09-07 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 19:17 ` Pip Cet
2016-09-07 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 19:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
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