Why is the display always messed up whenever I use the manual or eww?

Why is the display always messed up whenever I use the manual or eww?

[Jonathan Yip]

So I have been trying to learn more about emacs by reading the manual but the display keeps being messed up after going down a few pages.
I use emacs in command line on OS X Yosemite. Is it better if I use the app version?

Re: Why is the display always messed up whenever I use the manual or eww?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Jonathan Yip <alta.aqua@gmail.com> writes:

> So I have been trying to learn more about emacs by reading the manual
> but the display keeps being messed up after going down a few pages.
> I use emacs in command line on OS X Yosemite. Is it better if I use the app version?

I would advise you to use the GUI version of emacs:

   http://www.emacsformacosx.com

this is a very good distribution of GNU emacs for MacOSX.  (Currently,
version 24.4.1)


Otherwise, in the Terminal.app, I don't observe any difficulty in
navigating in the info; type in Terminal.app:

emacs RET
C-h i 
m emacs RET
SPC SPC SPC

When called from the terminal, you will get the emacs provided by apple,
in /usr/bin/emacs, which is version 22.1.1, a tad old.


What terminal are you using?  
Does it have correct and complete termcap (or terminfo) entries?
Did you configure the TERM variable correctly?

Did you install your own emacs? What version? Are you sure this is the
emacs you installed you are invoking?

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                 http://www.informatimago.com/
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Re: Why is the display always messed up whenever I use the manual or eww?

[Jude DaShiell]

Were I in that situation, I'd do control-z on the info reading then run 
xrefresh then run fg.  Don't know for sure that that will work though.

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Jonathan Yip wrote:

> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 02:49:34
> From: Jonathan Yip <alta.aqua@gmail.com>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Subject: Why is the display always messed up whenever I use the manual or eww?
> 
> So I have been trying to learn more about emacs by reading the manual but the display keeps being messed up after going down a few pages.
> I use emacs in command line on OS X Yosemite. Is it better if I use the app version?
>

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