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I've built and installed Gnu Emacs 18.58 on a VMS 5.5 system and it is
mostly working alright, with one minor but fairly annoying problem.

It appears that Emacs isn't keeping up with keystrokes, and if I use the
arrow keys (i.e. multi-byte keystrokes) at any decent speed, it
misinterprets them and I get garbage, including deleted text, inserted
text, random capitalizations, etc.

If I;m careful about not using the arrow keys too quickly, things are
generally alright, but it is very sensitive.

I seem to remember once reading something about this somewhere (how's that
for amazing generalities?) but...

I *think* (but haven't proved) that the problem is worse when our system
has more of a CPU load on it.

VMS 5.5 on a VAX 8550 (or is it an 8530?); the terminal is a VT420 and is
connected via a Datability Vista terminal server.

Actually, while we're at it, I find that my 'forward session' character
for the terminal server also comes in and out of commission when I use
Emacs; that is, Emacs seems to disable it.  Any ideas here?

Thanks,

would-rather-be-hacking-emacs-but-have-other-work,

Denis Haskin
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