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bug#23819: 25.0.95; display botched badly in xterm window


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#23819: 25.0.95; display botched badly in xterm window
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:53:21 +0300

> Cc: 23819@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:58:15 +0200
> 
>     Can you modify xterm.el such that it stores the value of 'version' in 
> xterm--version-handler in a variable? Then you could report the values of 
> that variable when you see the problems and when you don't, and maybe we will 
> learn something that way. 
> 
> The version string is "1;3201;0" and the version is therefore computed to be 
> 200, when things work at startup. This corresponds to GNOME Terminal 3.4.1.1 
> on the client (Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS). Right now I can't reproduce the problem 
> where the version string is copied into the start of the first buffer (I 
> assume this is because my Internet connection is good right now). However, 
> after doing a lot of searches I can occasionally reproduce the problem where 
> characters are misdisplayed, with 'emacs -Q src/conf_post.h'. I repeatedly 
> type "C-s h a s M-<" with a few extra C-s's thrown in.

Which probably means there are two separate problems.

Actually, what you describe now kinda rings a bell: we had similar
unexplained glitches when TTY menus were introduced.  See bug#17497;
starting with http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17497#230
there are some thoughts about a particular code fragment in cm.c that
never got addressed; perhaps you can dig into this, as you evidently
have access to a system where these problems can be reproduced.

Also, in http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17497#236, you
will see a link to a Virtual Box related discussion where someone
claims Emacs fails to deliver a crucial cursor-motion command to the
TTY driver, for some reason.  At the time, I analyzed many termscript
files people sent from affected machines, and saw no missing commands,
but maybe I missed something.

If you can see the same menu-related glitches, perhaps they will
provide an easier way to reproduce the problem and try solving it.

OTOH, if what you see is the same problem as in bug#17497, then it's
by no means new.

Thanks.





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