From 125f929e4533f5c89b859588047c97555abbf177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miles Bader Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:41:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note aboute using `inverse-video' to detect excessive screen redraw. --- etc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ etc/DEBUG | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 9def1d1efb5..1c827957c1b 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2000-12-15 Miles Bader + + * DEBUG: Add note aboute using `inverse-video' to detect excessive + screen redraw. + 2000-12-07 Dave Love * CODINGS, CHARSETS: Removed. (Mule 2.3 relics.) 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. -- 2.39.2