bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

If you move to the end of a truncated line in the package list, part of
the previous screen will be retained when it should actually be
invisible.

To reproduce this problem, start emacs -Q, select the entry "news" from
the package finder (the command finder-by-keyword), then turn on
truncate-lines (if it is not already on) in the package list containing
results from the finder, resize the window showing the package list so
that lines are being truncated, and move to the end of a truncated line.

This problem is not present in Emacs 27.2, and cannot be reproduced on a
TTY frame.

Parts of the previous content of the display will be preserved, which go
away upon invoking redraw-display.

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, i386-pc-solaris2.11, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)
 of 2021-09-13 built on blaster
Repository revision: fd1379a85aafa77c119b9b7aa811f669c575bac7
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101001
Configured using:
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Configured features:
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XIM XPM LUCID ZLIB

Important settings:
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Major mode: Package Menu

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bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> If you move to the end of a truncated line in the package list, part of
> the previous screen will be retained when it should actually be
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Correction: I meant to say "which should be".

bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:49:01 +0800
> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> 
> If you move to the end of a truncated line in the package list, part of
> the previous screen will be retained when it should actually be
> invisible.
> 
> To reproduce this problem, start emacs -Q, select the entry "news" from
> the package finder (the command finder-by-keyword), then turn on
> truncate-lines (if it is not already on) in the package list containing
> results from the finder, resize the window showing the package list so
> that lines are being truncated, and move to the end of a truncated line.
> 
> This problem is not present in Emacs 27.2, and cannot be reproduced on a
> TTY frame.
> 
> Parts of the previous content of the display will be preserved, which go
> away upon invoking redraw-display.

I don't think I can reproduce this here, at least not in "emacs -Q".
But it's hard to say because you didn't tell which part(s) of the
previous contents I should watch, and there's a lot of stuff on the
screen to be sure that none of it was left behind.

So please describe the recipe in more detail:

  . to what width to resize the frame
  . how do you "move to the end of a truncated line"
  . which parts of the display are left on the screen

Thanks.

bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't think I can reproduce this here, at least not in "emacs -Q".
> But it's hard to say because you didn't tell which part(s) of the
> previous contents I should watch, and there's a lot of stuff on the
> screen to be sure that none of it was left behind.

Sorry for that.

> So please describe the recipe in more detail:

>   . to what width to resize the frame

80 (character width) seems to be sufficient.

>   . how do you "move to the end of a truncated line"

By moving to the line, and calling move-end-of-line (C-e).

>   . which parts of the display are left on the screen

Parts of the names; I've attached three screenshots, of which
"before.png" depicts the package list before the bug is triggered,
"bug1.png" depicts the bug, and "correct.png" depicts the screen after
redraw-display.

Thanks.


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bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: 50564@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:47:46 +0800
> 
> >   . which parts of the display are left on the screen
> 
> Parts of the names; I've attached three screenshots, of which
> "before.png" depicts the package list before the bug is triggered,
> "bug1.png" depicts the bug, and "correct.png" depicts the screen after
> redraw-display.

That's list-packages, not finder-by-keyword.  I don't see the problem
in the latter, but I do see in the former (and in other displays that
use tabulated-list-mode, for example "C-x C-b").

I will look into this, thanks.

bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> That's list-packages, not finder-by-keyword.  I don't see the problem
> in the latter, but I do see in the former (and in other displays that
> use tabulated-list-mode, for example "C-x C-b").

My bad. Thanks.

> I will look into this, thanks.

Thanks for looking into this, Eli.  It's greatly appreciated.

bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:38:44 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 50564@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: 50564@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:47:46 +0800
> > 
> > >   . which parts of the display are left on the screen
> > 
> > Parts of the names; I've attached three screenshots, of which
> > "before.png" depicts the package list before the bug is triggered,
> > "bug1.png" depicts the bug, and "correct.png" depicts the screen after
> > redraw-display.
> 
> That's list-packages, not finder-by-keyword.  I don't see the problem
> in the latter, but I do see in the former (and in other displays that
> use tabulated-list-mode, for example "C-x C-b").
> 
> I will look into this, thanks.

Should be fixed now, please test.

bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Should be fixed now, please test.

Seems to be fixed.  Works as advertised, thanks :)

bug#50564: 28.0.50; Display artifacting in package list

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: 50564@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:21:33 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Should be fixed now, please test.
> 
> Seems to be fixed.  Works as advertised, thanks :)

Thanks, so I'm closing this bug.