[6842] in Athena Bugs
[cadill@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: BUGS!]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 9 08:22:18 1991
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 08:22:02 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: cadill@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[6083]
A while back, you sent the bug report below to bug-dialup.
I want you to know that we will work on the first bug as soon as we
can, but that it is not a high priority bug. Unfortunately, our
manpower resources are limited, so we have to choose which bugs are
the most important, and work on those first.
As for the second bug, it sounds to me like it is caused by an error
in the terminal emulation software you are using. I've never seen the
behavior you describe on my terminal, which is a vt240, when dialed
in, nor have I seen it when logged in on the console and running X. I
suggest that you use "olc" and let them know what type of PC and
terminal software you are using and ask if any of the consultants use
the same setup and have experienced the problem you are experiencing.
Also, if your software is capable of emulating other terminal types
than the one you use normally, try using another terminal type.
Reference:
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
