Add note aboute using `inverse-video' to detect excessive screen redraw.

diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index 9def1d1efb5a9e210c057170f28607e64f87cee0..1c827957c1b3d36759953fbd144d74804c31af41 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-12-15  Miles Bader  <miles@gnu.org>
+
+       * DEBUG: Add note aboute using `inverse-video' to detect excessive
+       screen redraw.
+
 2000-12-07  Dave Love  <fx@gnu.org>
 
        * CODINGS, CHARSETS: Removed.  (Mule 2.3 relics.)

diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG
index 42b965b098fc0b4d9335ec56c0b0851d3db31b33..2a61827c3cd49baf271c6219ad593afecf262c69 100644 (file)
--- 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.