Re: XEmacs

["Wes Bauske" <wsb@paralleldata.com>]

Bob McElrath wrote:
> 
> 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,

I use:

ncurses-devel-1.9.9e-7
ncurses-1.9.9e-7

on my RH5.0 system and it works OK. Are you using
some other level??


Wes