Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site godot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!godot!massar From: massar@godot.UUCP (J.P. Massar) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: CCA Emacs bug query Message-ID: <660@godot.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 16:27:06 EST Article-I.D.: godot.660 Posted: Wed Dec 26 16:27:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 03:44:13 EST References: <643@godot.UUCP> <80@mit-athena.ARPA> Reply-To: massar@godot.UUCP (J.P. Massar) Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 Summary: In article <80@mit-athena.ARPA> martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo) writes: >We have this problem at Project Athena. We have another problem where >EMACS is run on a heavily loaded systerm and on type ahead random text >from some other part of the buffer or another buffer is put on the >screen. This text then goes away and something like the correct text >appears. Yes. That happens at TMC and CCA also. It is almost certainly another symtom of the same bug. It is less annoying once you realize what is going on but quite possibly very devatating on EMACS performance since the screen is being updated needlessly (and wrongly) quite often. No one, however, has yet suggested a cause or a fix... JP Massar ihnp4!godot!massar massar@cca-unix