The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Mario Lang]

Hi.

Just tried the text-mode menu in emacs-24 branch, and it is rather
broken.  It is kind of hard for me to describe the bug in detail, but
scrolling through the menu items of the "Edit" menu gives me randomly
wrong aligned menu items.  "Undo" is not aligned with the rest of the
menu, but aligned to the left of the screen.  Quitting the menu gives me
left-over characters from these wrong-aligned menu items.

Can someone experienced with the new text mode menu take a look at this
please?  I am seeing it on Linux in tty mode, with a "--without-x"
complied emacs.

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CYa,
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Re: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 06/18/2014 01:50 PM, Mario Lang wrote:

> Just tried the text-mode menu in emacs-24 branch, and it is rather
> broken.  It is kind of hard for me to describe the bug in detail, but
> scrolling through the menu items of the "Edit" menu gives me randomly
> wrong aligned menu items.  "Undo" is not aligned with the rest of the
> menu, but aligned to the left of the screen.  Quitting the menu gives me
> left-over characters from these wrong-aligned menu items.
>
> Can someone experienced with the new text mode menu take a look at this
> please?  I am seeing it on Linux in tty mode, with a "--without-x"
> complied emacs.

Check screenshots from http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17497,
most probably you hit the same known issue.

Dmitry

Re: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Mario Lang]

Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 06/18/2014 01:50 PM, Mario Lang wrote:
>
>> Just tried the text-mode menu in emacs-24 branch, and it is rather
>> broken.  It is kind of hard for me to describe the bug in detail, but
>> scrolling through the menu items of the "Edit" menu gives me randomly
>> wrong aligned menu items.  "Undo" is not aligned with the rest of the
>> menu, but aligned to the left of the screen.  Quitting the menu gives me
>> left-over characters from these wrong-aligned menu items.
>>
>> Can someone experienced with the new text mode menu take a look at this
>> please?  I am seeing it on Linux in tty mode, with a "--without-x"
>> complied emacs.
>
> Check screenshots from http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17497,
> most probably you hit the same known issue.

I can't see plain image file screenshots, but the (terse) description in
the bug report sort of matches what I see, so likely this is the same
issue.  Thanks for pointing this out.

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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Dmitry Antipov]

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Now I'm seeing two TTY menu glitches:

0) Double-"selected" item (actually selected item on this screenshot
    is "New Window Below").

1) Out-of-menu "--" draw combined with incorrect help text in echo area.

$TERM is rxvt-unicode (version 9.20), if that matters.

Dmitry

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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:26:25 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
> 
> Now I'm seeing two TTY menu glitches:
> 
> 0) Double-"selected" item (actually selected item on this screenshot
>     is "New Window Below").
> 
> 1) Out-of-menu "--" draw combined with incorrect help text in echo area.
> 
> $TERM is rxvt-unicode (version 9.20), if that matters.

Any hope of a reproducible recipe?  I don't see this on the systems to
which I have access.

FWIW, this looks like a deja-vu of the phenomenon described in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00546.html.
As concluded (after a long discussion) in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00667.html,
we never actually understood why this happens.  Maybe try to play with
the size of your TTY window, and see if that changes anything.  Or
switch to xterm instead of rxvt.

Also, you could look into a termscript file to see whether Emacs
indeed wrote 2 lines with the red background in the first snapshot, or
wrote the "--" string at incorrect coordinates in the second.  The
discussion mentioned above concluded that perfectly correct terminal
commands caused strange unexplained effects on the screen.

> System Description:     Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
                                             ^^^^^^^^^
On second thought, a system with that description is supposed to do
this, no?

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

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Using "xfce4-terminal 0.6.3 (Xfce 4.10)", I did

   emacs-24.3.91 -Q -nw
   M-x menu-bar-open RET

then simply held down the down array, and very quickly got it to look
like the first attached image. By holding down the down arrow for a bit,
then the up arrow for a bit, then the down arrow, etc, I got the second
image. It's not 100% reproducible, but seemed to happen fairly often.
I don't expect to hold down the arrow keys in normal usage. :)


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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> then simply held down the down array, and very quickly got it to look

s/array/arrow

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

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And with the same strategy under "XTerm(303)", I quickly got the attached.
I don't normally use xterm, though, and it must be misconfigured
somehow, because pressing "M-x" produces LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH
STROKE... :)


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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 02:53:59 -0400
> 
> And with the same strategy under "XTerm(303)", I quickly got the attached.
> I don't normally use xterm, though, and it must be misconfigured
> somehow, because pressing "M-x" produces LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH
> STROKE... :)

I have no idea what causes this.  I cannot reproduce this, neither on
Windows, nor when running Emacs on GNU/Linux via PuTTY (which emulates
xterm).

Does this problem go away if you enlarge the terminal window such that
the entire File and Tools menus can be displayed without overlaying
the mode line?  If the problems disappear then, perhaps we could solve
them by limiting the number of displayed menu items some more.

If enlarging the window doesn't help, then I don't know what to do,
unless someone shows me a recipe I can use to reproduce the problem on
some machine where I can debug them.  Failing that, perhaps some
terminfo expert could analyze the termscript and show what we do
wrongly.  Last time I looked at termscript produced in a similar case,
it looked entirely legitimate, i.e. at no time did Emacs send a
terminal command to write to the portions of display where a
screenshot showed incorrectly displayed text, and every time a
red-background menu item was incorrectly left behind, there was a
clear command in the termscript that told the terminal to redraw that
very item with the normal (blue) background.  IOW, it looked like for
some reason the terminal was not obeying the commands it was sent.
Doers anyone know why would this happen?

It could also be some timing problem, specific to X, in which case
someone will have to explain how to avoid that, because I have no
idea.

Does this happen if you use the menu "reasonably", i.e. without
leaning on arrow keys?  Does it happen if you use C-p instead of the
down arrow?

I'm at a loss here...

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Does this problem go away if you enlarge the terminal window such that
> the entire File and Tools menus can be displayed without overlaying
> the mode line? 

I maximized the xterm before starting Emacs, and still very quickly got
into the state where there is a duplicate "--" off to the right of the
real menu (same as my "1.png" from earlier). It does seem less common
with a bigger terminal though.

> Does this happen if you use the menu "reasonably", i.e. without
> leaning on arrow keys? 

So far no, IME.

> Does it happen if you use C-p instead of the down arrow?

Leaning on C-p produces glitches, yes. Here's a fun one:


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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:47:27 -0400
> 
> > Does this happen if you use the menu "reasonably", i.e. without
> > leaning on arrow keys? 
> 
> So far no, IME.

Which means what? that the terminal somehow "optimizes out" some of
the commands it receives when they arrive at a high rate??

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:47:27 -0400
> 
> > Does this problem go away if you enlarge the terminal window such that
> > the entire File and Tools menus can be displayed without overlaying
> > the mode line? 
> 
> I maximized the xterm before starting Emacs, and still very quickly got
> into the state where there is a duplicate "--" off to the right of the
> real menu (same as my "1.png" from earlier). It does seem less common
> with a bigger terminal though.
> 
> > Does this happen if you use the menu "reasonably", i.e. without
> > leaning on arrow keys? 
> 
> So far no, IME.
> 
> > Does it happen if you use C-p instead of the down arrow?
> 
> Leaning on C-p produces glitches, yes. Here's a fun one:

Could both of you please record the terminal commands issued while you
reproduce the problem in a termscript, and then replay that termscript
to the same terminal (outside Emacs) with the attached shell script?
I'm interested to see whether the problem is reproduced by sending the
same commands at a low rate.

If sleeping for 2 seconds doesn't reproduce the problem, maybe try
decreasing the sleep time until it does.

TIA


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#! /bin/sh
# Invoke as "script FILE"
l=`wc -l $1 | awk '{ print $1 }'`
i=1
while (expr $i "<=" $l > /dev/null); do
  sed -n -e `echo $i`p $1 && sleep 2 && i=`expr $i "+" 1`;
done

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping!  Could you please do what I asked below?  Thanks.

> Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 12:56:04 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Could both of you please record the terminal commands issued while you
> reproduce the problem in a termscript, and then replay that termscript
> to the same terminal (outside Emacs) with the attached shell script?
> I'm interested to see whether the problem is reproduced by sending the
> same commands at a low rate.
> 
> If sleeping for 2 seconds doesn't reproduce the problem, maybe try
> decreasing the sleep time until it does.
> 
> TIA

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

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Replaying the termscript at full speed does not produce the same
glitches, if that makes any sense.

See attached image and assoicated termscript.

BTW, your script reduces to:

while read line; do
  echo "$line"
  sleep 2
done < "$1"


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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Andreas Schwab]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Replaying the termscript at full speed does not produce the same
> glitches, if that makes any sense.

Then it can only be a bug in the terminal emulator.

Andreas.

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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Replaying the termscript at full speed does not produce the same
>> glitches, if that makes any sense.
>
> Then it can only be a bug in the terminal emulator.

Then it's common to several of them, as has already been said.

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Andreas Schwab]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Replaying the termscript at full speed does not produce the same
>>> glitches, if that makes any sense.
>>
>> Then it can only be a bug in the terminal emulator.
>
> Then it's common to several of them, as has already been said.

That's very well possible, since they are often just forks of each
other.

Andreas.

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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> That's very well possible, since they are often just forks of each
> other.

OK, so far people have seen such issues with

xterm 303
rxvt-unicode 9.20
xfce4-terminal 0.6.3
eterm
whatever martin was using in
   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00462.html

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:29:40 -0400
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> whatever martin was using in
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00462.html

Not sure that was the same problem, as it disappeared when replayed
with a script like the one you used.  It also disappeared in xterm on
the same machine, and when the size of the terminal window was
enlarged.

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 01:44:05 -0400
> 
> Replaying the termscript at full speed does not produce the same
> glitches, if that makes any sense.

That's weird.  Earlier you said that if you don't lean on the arrow
keys, but press them at normal typing speed, the problem doesn't
happen as well, is that right?  If so, perhaps you could produce a
termscript for the same sequence of keypresses, just at that "normal"
speed, so we could compare them.  (If one of the termscripts has fewer
keypresses than the other, it doesn't matter, as long as you press the
same keys.)

> BTW, your script reduces to:
> 
> while read line; do
>   echo "$line"
>   sleep 2
> done < "$1"

Thanks.

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> That's weird.  Earlier you said that if you don't lean on the arrow
> keys, but press them at normal typing speed, the problem doesn't
> happen as well, is that right? 

So far I have not seen it to occur without me leaning on keys, but it
could be that it only happens on say 1/100 key presses, as opposed to
when the key rate is high. I don't use text-mode menus normally.

> If so, perhaps you could produce a termscript for the same sequence of
> keypresses, just at that "normal" speed, so we could compare them. (If
> one of the termscripts has fewer keypresses than the other, it doesn't
> matter, as long as you press the same keys.)

You mean I can replace "lean on the down key, lean on the up key, lean
on the down key" with just "down, up, down"?
If so, I'll give it a go later on.

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:26:47 -0400
> 
> > If so, perhaps you could produce a termscript for the same sequence of
> > keypresses, just at that "normal" speed, so we could compare them. (If
> > one of the termscripts has fewer keypresses than the other, it doesn't
> > matter, as long as you press the same keys.)
> 
> You mean I can replace "lean on the down key, lean on the up key, lean
> on the down key" with just "down, up, down"?

Actually, something like 20 times down, then 20 times up would be
better, I think.

Also, if you revert revision 117033 on emacs-24 branch (or try with a
binary built before Apr 29, if you keep them), does the problem still
exist?

TIA

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 19:46:34 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> > Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:26:47 -0400
> > 
> > > If so, perhaps you could produce a termscript for the same sequence of
> > > keypresses, just at that "normal" speed, so we could compare them. (If
> > > one of the termscripts has fewer keypresses than the other, it doesn't
> > > matter, as long as you press the same keys.)
> > 
> > You mean I can replace "lean on the down key, lean on the up key, lean
> > on the down key" with just "down, up, down"?
> 
> Actually, something like 20 times down, then 20 times up would be
> better, I think.
> 
> Also, if you revert revision 117033 on emacs-24 branch (or try with a
> binary built before Apr 29, if you keep them), does the problem still
> exist?

Ping!  Any more info on this?

TIA

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Also, if you revert revision 117033 on emacs-24 branch (or try with a
>> binary built before Apr 29, if you keep them), does the problem still
>> exist?

Reverting 117033: still glitchy.

> > > If so, perhaps you could produce a termscript for the same sequence of
> > > keypresses, just at that "normal" speed, so we could compare them. (If
> > > one of the termscripts has fewer keypresses than the other, it doesn't
> > > matter, as long as you press the same keys.)
> > 
> > You mean I can replace "lean on the down key, lean on the up key, lean
> > on the down key" with just "down, up, down"?
> 
> Actually, something like 20 times down, then 20 times up would be
> better, I think.

OK, so in trying to do this, I have noticed it glitching when I press
the keys at normal speed. So I presume it's not useful to send you that
comparison after all.

See attached image and associated typescript.
In this case I think I just opened the menu-bar and pressed the down
arrow three times at normal speed.

FWIW, I could not make it happen on a RHEL 6.5 system at all.
But on a Debian testing system, it happens with multiple terminal emulators.

(I suspect this is going to be one of those things you need to be able
to reproduce to fix...)


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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 22:22:29 -0400
> 
> >> Also, if you revert revision 117033 on emacs-24 branch (or try with a
> >> binary built before Apr 29, if you keep them), does the problem still
> >> exist?
> 
> Reverting 117033: still glitchy.

OK, one suspect down.

> OK, so in trying to do this, I have noticed it glitching when I press
> the keys at normal speed. So I presume it's not useful to send you that
> comparison after all.

No, it's not useful.  But I wonder why earlier you thought that this
didn't happen at normal speed.  Is it more rare at normal speed?

> See attached image and associated typescript.
> In this case I think I just opened the menu-bar and pressed the down
> arrow three times at normal speed.

When I replay that typescript on fencepost.gnu.org (logging into it
via PuTTY, which emulates xterm), I see no glitches at all, FWIW.

Interestingly, there's a cursor shown in the image to the left of
"Visit New File" menu item; it shouldn't be there.

Moreover, if I login to fencepost, set my terminal's height to be 24
lines, like in your screenshot, and then record the termscript with
the same 3 keystrokes as you did, I get an identical script!  So Emacs
behaves identically on these 2 systems, it's something in the terminal
emulators and/or the libraries they use that causes the differences in
behavior.

> FWIW, I could not make it happen on a RHEL 6.5 system at all.
> But on a Debian testing system, it happens with multiple terminal emulators.
> 
> (I suspect this is going to be one of those things you need to be able
> to reproduce to fix...)

Can you reproduce the problem when you log into that Debian testing
system remotely, via some xterm emulator?  If so, I'd appreciate an
SSH login to that system, and a directory with an Emacs tree to play
in.  Thanks.

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Can you reproduce the problem when you log into that Debian testing
> system remotely, via some xterm emulator?  If so, I'd appreciate an
> SSH login to that system, and a directory with an Emacs tree to play
> in.  Thanks.

Sorry, that is my laptop, and I don't have incoming ssh enabled on it,
and as a general rule don't want to. Nothing against you personally! :)

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

One more idea: can you try decreasing the number 900 in this snippet
from dispnew.c:

	  if (FRAME_TERMCAP_P (f))
	    {
	      /* Flush out every so many lines.
		 Also flush out if likely to have more than 1k buffered
		 otherwise.   I'm told that some telnet connections get
		 really screwed by more than 1k output at once.  */
	      FILE *display_output = FRAME_TTY (f)->output;
	      if (display_output)
		{
		  ptrdiff_t outq = __fpending (display_output);
		  if (outq > 900
		      || (outq > 20 && ((i - 1) % preempt_count == 0)))
		    fflush (display_output);
		}
	    }

Or maybe even make display_output line-buffered.  I wonder if that has
any effect on the problem.

TIA

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> One more idea: can you try decreasing the number 900 in this snippet
> from dispnew.c:

I set it to 450: still glitchy.

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:51:50 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > One more idea: can you try decreasing the number 900 in this snippet
> > from dispnew.c:
> 
> I set it to 450: still glitchy.

Thanks for trying.

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 19:19:07 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> > Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 01:44:05 -0400
> > 
> > Replaying the termscript at full speed does not produce the same
> > glitches, if that makes any sense.
> 
> That's weird.

Wait, maybe I misunderstood you.  Did you mean that replaying at full
speed (i.e. without the 'sleep' line, I presume?) makes the glitches
go away, or did you mean there are still glitches, but they look
different on the screen?

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Wait, maybe I misunderstood you.  Did you mean that replaying at full
> speed (i.e. without the 'sleep' line, I presume?) makes the glitches
> go away, or did you mean there are still glitches, but they look
> different on the screen?

With no sleep, there are no glitches (that I could see).
I certainly did not end up with that stray "--" off to the right.

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:54:26 -0400
> 
> With no sleep, there are no glitches (that I could see).
> I certainly did not end up with that stray "--" off to the right.

IOW, sending commands at fast rate by leaning on the keys does produce
the glitches, but replaying the same commands at fast rate doesn't.
Curiouser and curiouser...

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Dmitry Antipov]

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On 05/16/2014 10:53 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:

> And with the same strategy under "XTerm(303)", I quickly got the attached.

I found this issue XTerm-compatible too.

Just for the record, TTY menus are even more broken with Eterm.

Dmitry


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bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:42:54 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
> CC: 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Just for the record, TTY menus are even more broken with Eterm.

How is this more broken?  All I see is the same problem with artifacts
left behind where they shouldn't be.  Like in your original
screenshots.  The number of artifacts is not important; even one of
them is a sign of some problem.

Do you see in the termscript any commands to write these artifacts?
E.g., the red-background "Close" was presumably the selected menu item
at some previous time; do you see a command to overwrite that with the
blue-background "Close" (or something else) in insert mode?

Is there any difference in what you see if you do that in a buffer
which is large enough to fill the entire window with text, like
xdisp.c in its first portion, where there's a large commentary?  IOW,
do these problems depend on what was on the screen before the menu was
dropped down?

The TTY menus work by overwriting portions of the glyph matrix with
the text derived from the menu.  The screen is updated by the normal
Emacs code, which was not touched at all.  So I don't understand why
these artifacts appear when menus are displayed, but not with normal
buffer text display...

Could this be a buffering issue?  Maybe adding some fflush calls will
make a difference?  (Not that I understand how buffering could change
the final result.)

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:42:54 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
> CC: 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Just for the record, TTY menus are even more broken with Eterm.

Does the change below help in any way?

=== modified file 'src/xdisp.c'
--- src/xdisp.c	2014-04-18 08:35:09 +0000
+++ src/xdisp.c	2014-05-16 10:35:55 +0000
@@ -21307,6 +21307,8 @@ display_tty_menu_item (const char *item_
 		    width, 0, FRAME_COLS (f) - 1, -1);
 
   row->used[TEXT_AREA] = max (saved_used, row->used[TEXT_AREA]);
+  if (row->used[TEXT_AREA] > 0)
+    row->displays_text_p = 1;
   row->truncated_on_right_p = saved_truncated;
   row->hash = row_hash (row);
   row->full_width_p = saved_width;

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 05/16/2014 02:46 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Does the change below help in any way?

Unfortunately no, AFAICS.

Dmitry

bug#17497: 24.4.50; TTY menu glitches

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 18:59:58 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
> CC: 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On 05/16/2014 02:46 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Does the change below help in any way?
> 
> Unfortunately no, AFAICS.

If you record in a termscript while doing what it takes to reproduce
the problem, and the dump that termscript to the screen, do you see
the same artifacts as you saw in Emacs?

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Eli.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:14:51 +0200
 
>> > Check screenshots from http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17497,
>> > most probably you hit the same known issue.
 
>> I can't see plain image file screenshots, but the (terse) description in
>> the bug report sort of matches what I see, so likely this is the same
>> issue.  Thanks for pointing this out.

> Can you state your system name/version and the terminal emulator you
> are using, for the record?  Past experience indicates that perhaps
> this problem affects only some systems/emulators.

I think this is the case.  I've started an up to date system from the
Emacs-24 branch, running on a GNU system on a Linux tty, with -Q.  I
configured the build with:

   ./configure --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no --with-gpm

.  The menus seem to work fine, except for one glitch.  When I click the
(GPM) mouse on a menu, the menu drops down beginning horizontally where
the mouse was, rather than where the menu label was.  I.e., I see this:

    File Ed Edit > ns Buffers Tools Lisp-Interaction Help
            Undo                    C-x u
            Cut                     C-w
    ...

, when I would rather expect to see this:

    File Edit > tions Buffers Tools Lisp-Interaction Help
         Undo                    C-x u
         Cut                     C-w
    ....

> Thanks.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:11:41 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> .  The menus seem to work fine, except for one glitch.  When I click the
> (GPM) mouse on a menu, the menu drops down beginning horizontally where
> the mouse was, rather than where the menu label was.  I.e., I see this:
> 
>     File Ed Edit > ns Buffers Tools Lisp-Interaction Help
>             Undo                    C-x u
>             Cut                     C-w
>     ...
> 
> , when I would rather expect to see this:
> 
>     File Edit > tions Buffers Tools Lisp-Interaction Help
>          Undo                    C-x u
>          Cut                     C-w
>     ....

This is not a glitch, this is intended behavior when your text
terminal has a mouse.  Clicking anywhere inside "Edit" will drop down
the "Edit" menu starting at the click position.

Can you drop the menu with F10, try navigating through menus with
arrow keys, both horizontal and vertical, and report whether you see
any problems?  If you see any problems, I'd appreciate screenshots
showing them.

Whatever the results, I'd like you know what are your OS and terminal
emulator, please.

Thanks.

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Eli.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 06:07:08PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 14:11:41 +0000 (UTC)

> > .  The menus seem to work fine, except for one glitch.  When I click the
> > (GPM) mouse on a menu, the menu drops down beginning horizontally where
> > the mouse was, rather than where the menu label was.  I.e., I see this:

> >     File Ed Edit > ns Buffers Tools Lisp-Interaction Help
> >             Undo                    C-x u
> >             Cut                     C-w
> >     ...

> > , when I would rather expect to see this:

> >     File Edit > tions Buffers Tools Lisp-Interaction Help
> >          Undo                    C-x u
> >          Cut                     C-w
> >     ....

> This is not a glitch, this is intended behavior when your text
> terminal has a mouse.  Clicking anywhere inside "Edit" will drop down
> the "Edit" menu starting at the click position.

Ah.  OK.  This seems at bit strange to me, but if it's intended
behaviour, then it's clearly not a glitch.

> Can you drop the menu with F10, try navigating through menus with
> arrow keys, both horizontal and vertical, and report whether you see
> any problems?  If you see any problems, I'd appreciate screenshots
> showing them.

I see no problems whatsoever.

> Whatever the results, I'd like you know what are your OS and terminal
> emulator, please.

Gentoo GNU/Linux, on a Linux virtual terminal (i.e. not in a terminal
emulator, not on X).

> Thanks.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Martin Trojer]

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> I don't think it's memory corruption.  I suspect the problem is
> related to the different ways cmgoto chooses to get to the specified
> screen coordinates.  If someone on the affected systems could tweak
> cmgoto such that only the direct move is used, i.e. this code:
>
>      p = (dcm == tty->Wcm->cm_habs
>           ? tgoto (dcm, row, col)
>           : tgoto (dcm, col, row));
>      emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, cmputc);
>      curY (tty) = row, curX (tty) = col;
>
> then perhaps we could see if my suspicions are in the right direction.


Hi Eli,

I just applied this patch trying to solve a different but related
issue (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13687).

I am happy to report that applying this patch completely solved the
redrawing issues I was experiencing!

One option for you to recreate this issue locally seems to be to
install virtual box, config a virtual machine with multiple cores, ssh
into it and rung emacs.

I've put my diff here
(https://github.com/martintrojer/emacs/commit/bdff1ff98d02f4307659c052d0b35a40a36f0706),
and I understand it can't be merged as-is hopefully this can help you
find a solution that go into mainline emacs.

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bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:45:17 +0000
> From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
> 
> > I don't think it's memory corruption.  I suspect the problem is
> > related to the different ways cmgoto chooses to get to the specified
> > screen coordinates.  If someone on the affected systems could tweak
> > cmgoto such that only the direct move is used, i.e. this code:
> >
> >      p = (dcm == tty->Wcm->cm_habs
> >           ? tgoto (dcm, row, col)
> >           : tgoto (dcm, col, row));
> >      emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, cmputc);
> >      curY (tty) = row, curX (tty) = col;
> >
> > then perhaps we could see if my suspicions are in the right direction.
> 
> Hi Eli,
> I just applied this patch trying to solve a different but related issue (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13687).
> I am happy to report that applying this patch completely solved the redrawing issues I was experiencing!

You don't quote the person who wrote the above, so I need to ask you
who wrote the code.  We need to know to whom to attribute it.

Also, I'd be happier if someone could explain why this is the the
right thing to do in that place.

Thanks.

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Martin Trojer]

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Hello,

I believe that snippet of code was from you :) I simply put that quoted
snipped in the cmgoto function as per your instructions. I'm sure this
isn't the 'right thing to do' since it completely bypasses the switch
statement that tries to do the cheapest cursor move.

For what I can tell from the long discussion this is very hairy bug to
observe and debug. But for some reason that I don't fully understand this
patch solves my re-draw issues.

Also, if you are interested in solving this issue properly, running emacs
inside a VM (in this case Virtualbox) seems to make re-draw issues a lot
more likely and thus perhaps easier to diagnose.

Cheers...

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:45:17 +0000
> > From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
> >
> > > I don't think it's memory corruption.  I suspect the problem is
> > > related to the different ways cmgoto chooses to get to the specified
> > > screen coordinates.  If someone on the affected systems could tweak
> > > cmgoto such that only the direct move is used, i.e. this code:
> > >
> > >      p = (dcm == tty->Wcm->cm_habs
> > >           ? tgoto (dcm, row, col)
> > >           : tgoto (dcm, col, row));
> > >      emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, cmputc);
> > >      curY (tty) = row, curX (tty) = col;
> > >
> > > then perhaps we could see if my suspicions are in the right direction.
> >
> > Hi Eli,
> > I just applied this patch trying to solve a different but related issue (
> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13687).
> > I am happy to report that applying this patch completely solved the
> redrawing issues I was experiencing!
>
> You don't quote the person who wrote the above, so I need to ask you
> who wrote the code.  We need to know to whom to attribute it.
>
> Also, I'd be happier if someone could explain why this is the the
> right thing to do in that place.
>
> Thanks.
>

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bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:51:48 +0000
> From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
> 
> I believe that snippet of code was from you :) I simply put that quoted snipped
> in the cmgoto function as per your instructions. I'm sure this isn't the 'right
> thing to do' since it completely bypasses the switch statement that tries to do
> the cheapest cursor move. 

So what patch did you install, exactly, that fixed the problem?

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Martin Trojer]

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From bdff1ff98d02f4307659c052d0b35a40a36f0706 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:44:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] emacs bug #17497 fix

---
 src/cm.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cm.c b/src/cm.c
index 474f280..ed17447 100644
--- a/src/cm.c
+++ b/src/cm.c
@@ -371,6 +371,16 @@ cmgoto (struct tty_display_info *tty, int row, int col)
       dcm = tty->Wcm->cm_abs;
     }

+    /* only use direct moves */
+    cost = 0;
+    p = (dcm == tty->Wcm->cm_habs
+         ? tgoto (dcm, row, col)
+         : tgoto (dcm, col, row));
+    emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, evalcost);
+    emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, cmputc);
+    curY (tty) = row, curX (tty) = col;
+    return;
+
   /*
    * In the following comparison, the = in <= is because when the costs
    * are the same, it looks nicer (I think) to move directly there.


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:51:48 +0000
> > From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
> >
> > I believe that snippet of code was from you :) I simply put that quoted
> snipped
> > in the cmgoto function as per your instructions. I'm sure this isn't the
> 'right
> > thing to do' since it completely bypasses the switch statement that
> tries to do
> > the cheapest cursor move.
>
> So what patch did you install, exactly, that fixed the problem?
>

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bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:13:13 +0000
> From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
> Cc: 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> From bdff1ff98d02f4307659c052d0b35a40a36f0706 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:44:02 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] emacs bug #17497 fix
> 
> ---
>  src/cm.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/cm.c b/src/cm.c
> index 474f280..ed17447 100644
> --- a/src/cm.c
> +++ b/src/cm.c
> @@ -371,6 +371,16 @@ cmgoto (struct tty_display_info *tty, int row, int col)
>        dcm = tty->Wcm->cm_abs;
>      }
>  
> +    /* only use direct moves */
> +    cost = 0;
> +    p = (dcm == tty->Wcm->cm_habs
> +         ? tgoto (dcm, row, col)
> +         : tgoto (dcm, col, row));
> +    emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, evalcost);
> +    emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, cmputc);
> +    curY (tty) = row, curX (tty) = col;
> +    return;
> +
>    /*
>     * In the following comparison, the = in <= is because when the costs
>     * are the same, it looks nicer (I think) to move directly there.

I now do see this problem on a GNU/Linux system to which I have
access, but applying this patch didn't solve the problem...

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 12:38:58 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:13:13 +0000
> > From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
> > Cc: 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > From bdff1ff98d02f4307659c052d0b35a40a36f0706 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Martin Trojer <martin.trojer@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:44:02 +0000
> > Subject: [PATCH] emacs bug #17497 fix
> > 
> > ---
> >  src/cm.c | 10 ++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/cm.c b/src/cm.c
> > index 474f280..ed17447 100644
> > --- a/src/cm.c
> > +++ b/src/cm.c
> > @@ -371,6 +371,16 @@ cmgoto (struct tty_display_info *tty, int row, int col)
> >        dcm = tty->Wcm->cm_abs;
> >      }
> >  
> > +    /* only use direct moves */
> > +    cost = 0;
> > +    p = (dcm == tty->Wcm->cm_habs
> > +         ? tgoto (dcm, row, col)
> > +         : tgoto (dcm, col, row));
> > +    emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, evalcost);
> > +    emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, cmputc);
> > +    curY (tty) = row, curX (tty) = col;
> > +    return;
> > +
> >    /*
> >     * In the following comparison, the = in <= is because when the costs
> >     * are the same, it looks nicer (I think) to move directly there.
> 
> I now do see this problem on a GNU/Linux system to which I have
> access, but applying this patch didn't solve the problem...

Some debugging indicates that somehow the cursor is sometimes moved
behind our backs, when a frame with a TTY menu is being updated.  So I
installed a semi-kludgey workaround that seems to fix 99% of the
glitches.  Since I don't really understand why this change is needed,
and because of the 1% of glitches that still happen, I'm not closing
the bug, and will continue looking into this.

If someone knows which display ops could move the cursor without going
through cursor_to, please tell.

I hope the solution is not limited to the one system where I see this
problem.  People who experienced the problem are encouraged to try the
latest release branch and report the results here.

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Some debugging indicates that somehow the cursor is sometimes moved
> behind our backs, when a frame with a TTY menu is being updated.  So I
> installed a semi-kludgey workaround that seems to fix 99% of the
> glitches.  Since I don't really understand why this change is needed,
> and because of the 1% of glitches that still happen, I'm not closing
> the bug, and will continue looking into this.

This was a year and a half ago.  I tried the recipe for reproducing the
bug for a couple of minutes, and I couldn't get it to glitch here, so is
it time to close this bug report?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: martin.trojer@gmail.com,  17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 01:32:52 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Some debugging indicates that somehow the cursor is sometimes moved
> > behind our backs, when a frame with a TTY menu is being updated.  So I
> > installed a semi-kludgey workaround that seems to fix 99% of the
> > glitches.  Since I don't really understand why this change is needed,
> > and because of the 1% of glitches that still happen, I'm not closing
> > the bug, and will continue looking into this.
> 
> This was a year and a half ago.  I tried the recipe for reproducing the
> bug for a couple of minutes, and I couldn't get it to glitch here, so is
> it time to close this bug report?

Yes, I think so.  Thanks.

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:14:51 +0200
> 
> > Check screenshots from http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17497,
> > most probably you hit the same known issue.
> 
> I can't see plain image file screenshots, but the (terse) description in
> the bug report sort of matches what I see, so likely this is the same
> issue.  Thanks for pointing this out.

Can you state your system name/version and the terminal emulator you
are using, for the record?  Past experience indicates that perhaps
this problem affects only some systems/emulators.

Thanks.

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Mario Lang]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:14:51 +0200
>> 
>> > Check screenshots from http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17497,
>> > most probably you hit the same known issue.
>> 
>> I can't see plain image file screenshots, but the (terse) description in
>> the bug report sort of matches what I see, so likely this is the same
>> issue.  Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> Can you state your system name/version and the terminal emulator you
> are using, for the record?  Past experience indicates that perhaps
> this problem affects only some systems/emulators.

I am running in GNU/Screen on GNU/Linux (kernel 3.14).

This bug only happens when scrolling down anything else than the first
toplevel entry, because the first toplevel menu is already
left-justified...  And it does not happen all the time.  In fact,
while it is reproducible, it doesnt reproduce the same way everytime I
try it.  Sometimes I need to go down 10 or 15 elements until one gets}
drawn in the wrong position, and sometimes I just go down two or three
items.  I am not sure, but it *feels* like the issue is easier to
reproduce if I hit down-arrow rapidly in succession.

This *feels* like memory corruption, as if the x coordinate is randomly
set to 0 in some situations.

-- 
CYa,
  ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
> Cc: 17497@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 12:14:44 +0200
> 
> I am running in GNU/Screen on GNU/Linux (kernel 3.14).

Thanks.  Which brand of GNU/Linux is that?

> This bug only happens when scrolling down anything else than the first
> toplevel entry, because the first toplevel menu is already
> left-justified...  And it does not happen all the time.  In fact,
> while it is reproducible, it doesnt reproduce the same way everytime I
> try it.  Sometimes I need to go down 10 or 15 elements until one gets}
> drawn in the wrong position, and sometimes I just go down two or three
> items.  I am not sure, but it *feels* like the issue is easier to
> reproduce if I hit down-arrow rapidly in succession.
> 
> This *feels* like memory corruption, as if the x coordinate is randomly
> set to 0 in some situations.

I don't think it's memory corruption.  I suspect the problem is
related to the different ways cmgoto chooses to get to the specified
screen coordinates.  If someone on the affected systems could tweak
cmgoto such that only the direct move is used, i.e. this code:

      p = (dcm == tty->Wcm->cm_habs
           ? tgoto (dcm, row, col)
           : tgoto (dcm, col, row));
      emacs_tputs (tty, p, 1, cmputc);
      curY (tty) = row, curX (tty) = col;

then perhaps we could see if my suspicions are in the right direction.

Thanks.

bug#17497: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:57:45 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On 06/18/2014 01:50 PM, Mario Lang wrote:
> 
> > Just tried the text-mode menu in emacs-24 branch, and it is rather
> > broken.  It is kind of hard for me to describe the bug in detail, but
> > scrolling through the menu items of the "Edit" menu gives me randomly
> > wrong aligned menu items.  "Undo" is not aligned with the rest of the
> > menu, but aligned to the left of the screen.  Quitting the menu gives me
> > left-over characters from these wrong-aligned menu items.
> >
> > Can someone experienced with the new text mode menu take a look at this
> > please?  I am seeing it on Linux in tty mode, with a "--without-x"
> > complied emacs.
> 
> Check screenshots from http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17497,
> most probably you hit the same known issue.

Since I cannot reproduce this on any system I have access to, I'm
basically waiting for someone to step forward to either give me a
login on a system where this happens, or work closely with me on
debugging this on their machine.  The two last ideas I had and asked
to try didn't get any followup at all, so I guess no one is interested
enough to work on this, or let me do it on their machine.

If no one steps forward, I'm afraid this will remain "a known issue",
at least on some systems and with some terminal emulators.

(I've redirected this discussion to the bug address, btw.)

Re: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:50:43 +0200
> 
> Just tried the text-mode menu in emacs-24 branch, and it is rather
> broken.  It is kind of hard for me to describe the bug in detail, but
> scrolling through the menu items of the "Edit" menu gives me randomly
> wrong aligned menu items.  "Undo" is not aligned with the rest of the
> menu, but aligned to the left of the screen.  Quitting the menu gives me
> left-over characters from these wrong-aligned menu items.
> 
> Can someone experienced with the new text mode menu take a look at this
> please?  I am seeing it on Linux in tty mode, with a "--without-x"
> complied emacs.

About 1.5 months ago, you tried the menus with a patch I sent, and
said that it was "exactly what you was looking for".  Did menus work
OK then, but not now?  If so, what, if anything, has changed since
then, in terms of your system configuration, the way you build Emacs,
or the terminal emulation software you are using?

Re: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Mario Lang]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:50:43 +0200
>> 
>> Just tried the text-mode menu in emacs-24 branch, and it is rather
>> broken.  It is kind of hard for me to describe the bug in detail, but
>> scrolling through the menu items of the "Edit" menu gives me randomly
>> wrong aligned menu items.  "Undo" is not aligned with the rest of the
>> menu, but aligned to the left of the screen.  Quitting the menu gives me
>> left-over characters from these wrong-aligned menu items.
>> 
>> Can someone experienced with the new text mode menu take a look at this
>> please?  I am seeing it on Linux in tty mode, with a "--without-x"
>> complied emacs.
>
> About 1.5 months ago, you tried the menus with a patch I sent, and
> said that it was "exactly what you was looking for".  Did menus work
> OK then, but not now?

Yes.  When I tested the cursor motion changes about 1 1/2 months ago, I
didn't see any display glitches.  However, I tested trunk back then, and not
emacs-24, to be exact.

> If so, what, if anything, has changed since then, in terms of your
> system configuration, the way you build Emacs, or the terminal
> emulation software you are using?

Nothing, except that this time I tried emacs-24.  I noticed you reworked
the patch just a few days ago, maybe that introduced the glitches?

Note that the cursor is placed correctly at the beginning of the menu
item, even if the menu item location is actually incorrect.  So the
cursor motion fix seems "fine", i.e., sync to the display glitches.

-- 
CYa,
  ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕

Re: The text-mode menu looks very broken in emacs-24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:29:24 +0200
> 
> > About 1.5 months ago, you tried the menus with a patch I sent, and
> > said that it was "exactly what you was looking for".  Did menus work
> > OK then, but not now?
> 
> Yes.  When I tested the cursor motion changes about 1 1/2 months ago, I
> didn't see any display glitches.  However, I tested trunk back then, and not
> emacs-24, to be exact.

Please try the trunk again.  The menus code is identical in both
branches.  Moreover, Dmitry reported bug 17497 for the trunk, not for
the release branch.  So I don't think this is the reason.

> > If so, what, if anything, has changed since then, in terms of your
> > system configuration, the way you build Emacs, or the terminal
> > emulation software you are using?
> 
> Nothing, except that this time I tried emacs-24.  I noticed you reworked
> the patch just a few days ago, maybe that introduced the glitches?

No, the rework was intended to maybe solve the problems that were
reported before the changes I made.

> Note that the cursor is placed correctly at the beginning of the menu
> item, even if the menu item location is actually incorrect.

You mean, the cursor is at the menu item even when that menu item is
in the wrong position?  IOW, the cursor is also in the wrong position,
near the wrongly positioned menu item?

> So the cursor motion fix seems "fine", i.e., sync to the display
> glitches.

Writing the menu item involves moving the cursor to the menu item
location first, so if that movement gets the cursor to incorrect
position, it will probably do that  always.