[6083] in Athena Bugs
[cadill@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: BUGS!]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Fri Sep 21 11:13:26 1990
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 11:13:01 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Neither of these should be dialup-specific.
-Mark
From: cadill@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bug-dialup@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: BUGS!
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 00:39:50 EDT
I have been dialing-up (x8-7000) for some time now, using
a vt100 terminal. Now that I have been using the system for
awhile I feed I should point out two relevant bugs which
have cronically reoccured with extreme consistency.
1) The first is very simple. When the option on the 'more' command to
set the number of screen lines (to say, something like 18) is used,
the 'b'ackup option no longer works. This is fairly troublesome for
terminals which cannot display 24 lines.
2) The second is a very strange emacs problem. This has happened to
me enough times that I think I can describe it with some accuracy.
On occasion, when the cursor reaches somewhere close to the right
side of the 80 column screen, say within 10 characters, the backspace
key functions irregularly. What occurs is as follows: if a character
near the right side of the screen is mistyped, and the backspace or left
arrow key is pressed, the cursor will often jump to the extreme right side
of the screen. For some reason, emacs still "thinks" that the cursor is
in the correct position, even though to the user the text now has a
large gap in it. This leads to some very serious mis-juxtaposition of
text, and it seems the only way to fix this is to terminate and restart
emacs. This problem is extremely annoying...It actually happened 8
times while I was typing this document. I have not analyzed whether
this error occurs more/less/the same number of times when emacs is
envoked via 'comp' although I suspect it makes no difference. I would
appreciate it greatly if someone could look into this problem seriously,
because these hands are getting tired of the "C-x C-s C-x C-c restart"
sequence.
Thanks a lot,
-cadill aka Chris Carrillo
