From 7f2ecb7691c93b8e8a3ab1a36dd95fe87c6bef1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miles Bader Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:41:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note aboute using `inverse-video' to detect excessive screen redraw. --- etc/DEBUG | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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. -- 2.30.2