Re: XEmacs

[Bob McElrath <mcelrath@draal.physics.wisc.edu>]

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:

> 
> On 29 Oct 1998, Brederlow wrote:
> 
> > Do you still have the source? Could you make a diff please. Even a tar 
> > ball or rpm of the bin would be usefull. Better than using vi, which
> > does a screen update every 4 chars only. :)
> > 
> > By the way, is that the normal behaviour of vi on alpha?
> 
> No, it's not.  In fact, I use vi almost exclusively on my Alpha (low
> memory installed) and it's fine.  It updates every char as expected.
> Maybe it's kernel or video card related?

This is a bug in curses, and affects many text-based programs.  I think it
is due to the curses emulation in ncurses.  It exists under both Debian and
RedHat.  I don't know if the ncurses maintainer is aware of it, or if a new
ncurses will fix it...

-- Bob

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