Kyle Jones writes: I see the behavior when I am going over a slow modem. I can also see on a fast connection by doing this in a shell: (sleep 60 ; cat /etc/motd)& xemacs -nw Then, once I'm in XEmacs, I `C-x C-f ~/.emacs', `C-x 2', and wait another 30 seconds for the garbage to fill the screen. After that, I do `M-: t RET', and get the entire screen refreshed. I call this a bug. By the way, I also hate it under X, since my dxpc make XEmacs usable over a v.90 modem, but it would be much nicer if there were fewer gratuitous redisplays. -- Colin