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| author | Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> | 2000-12-15 11:41:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> | 2000-12-15 11:41:20 +0000 |
| commit | 125f929e4533f5c89b859588047c97555abbf177 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f67c0f8a25a651b59ce8e8052e00942d914cf15 /etc/DEBUG | |
| parent | 64c1e55fbe411abb6186fe6d973bf8cd789fb3a1 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-125f929e4533f5c89b859588047c97555abbf177.tar.gz | |
Add note aboute using `inverse-video' to detect excessive screen redraw.
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diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG index 42b965b098f..2a61827c3cd 100644 --- a/etc/DEBUG +++ b/etc/DEBUG @@ -112,3 +112,8 @@ If you have irreproducible display problems, put those two expressions in your ~/.emacs file. When the problem happens, exit the Emacs that you were running, kill it, and rename the two files. Then you can start another Emacs without clobbering those files, and use it to examine them. + +An easy way to see if too much text is being redrawn on a terminal is to +evaluate `(setq inverse-video t)' before you try the operation you think +will cause too much redrawing. This doesn't refresh the screen, so only +newly drawn text is in inverse video. |