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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID a16d4b8999cf52e830584be8db605db6; Fri, 29 Sep 2023 02:49:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2023 02:22:00 +0000") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.21797 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:271461 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > Thank you very much! That helps. > > I see mention of this in NEWS, now. And I see > it described in (elisp) `Management Parameters'. > > However, the positive reason that the default > behavior was changed is not really developed. > Both NEWS and the Elisp manual just say that > the default behavior (double buffering) aims > "to reduce display flicker". Can you (and the > doc) please say more? No, because the flicker manifests differently for each person who encounters it. > And this language in the manual is, I think, > unfortunate: if you "pine for that retro, > flicker-y feeling" then set the parameter to t. I agree. > Has anyone ever really reported any such flicker > on MS Windows? I've never noticed any "display > flicker" there. Quite the opposite. I used That's subject to the graphics driver installed, I believe. Many MS Windows users reported severe flicker while scrolling in the past, a problem that has all but vanished with the introduction of double buffering.