[930] in Athena Bugs
xmh RT 6.0C
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 15 09:15:25 1988
From: <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 88 09:15:00 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
my text window pretty much always has some trash
in it, and i don't mean the content of incoming
mail ;-)
in particular, if the first line of the message
header of message b is shorter than the first
line of message a, then when message b is written
over message only that part of the first line
that message b explicitly overwrites will be
correct. whatever else is on that line will
remain. if this were a terminal, i'd say that
someone is dropping an erase-to-end-of-line.
secondly, for some heights of the text window,
upscrolling past the end of the message, i.e.
rolling the message up into the heavens, will
usually result in variously horizontally cleaved
fragments of the last text line lying about.
these fragments are always the lower half of
each character for a line of text that appears
in the message. that line, the one sliced and
replicated, seems to have no fixed relation to
the visible portion of the message or to the
message as a whole. a random sample as it were.
demo?
--dan
