Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
 Hrvoje Niksic writes:
  > Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
  > 
  > >  > I don't see this under cygwin. I see the redisplay thing but I
  > >  > hardly think its a showstopper.
  > > 
  > > Me either.  I had to work pretty hard to notice the bug.
  > 
  > Are you sure you were running XEmacs on a terminal?  Not a terminal
  > emulator, but the real thing?
 
 Emulator, usually running over a 28.8Kbps link.  The redisplay
 seems to be doing a screen repaint without a full-screen clear.
 So I see the cursor dancing around but that's about it. 
It is much worse when run on an actual terminal.  That's why I called
it a show-stopper.
Not that I care myself -- I use X now.  But as someone who used XEmacs
(not FSF Emacs) on terminals for some time, I know I'd be monstrously
annoyed by such a "feature".  In applications like Gnus and VM your
frame is split most of the time, making every minibuffer operation
imply screen repaint.  In an emulator, this is acceptable.  On a
terminal...  hardly.