From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs starts with current screen contents in its display buffer Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:10:20 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87mwciklpv.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404968275 9010 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2014 04:57:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:57:55 +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 06:57:45 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 1X56QR-00042p-HP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:57:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35188 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X53tm-0005qu-Oy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 22:15:50 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:6InLCM6KAp0qTtvDR8RM1nWmZGk= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206347 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:98617 Archived-At: 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'? -- underground experts united