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>>>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:17:05 GMT, stevef@bony1.bony.com (Steve Faiwiszewski) said:

SF> In article <BzD9vv.440@world.std.com> dwh@world.std.com (Denis W Haskin) writes:
>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.


SF> The problem manifests itself mostly when Emacs is used via vt tubes
SF> (vt220, 240, 320, etc.) which are connected thru DEC terminal servers.
SF> But, I've seen Emacs dropping keys even when running as an X11 client.
SF> Whenever it drops a key when run under X11 it will issue a beep (so
SF> I notice right away and thus it's not so bad), which makes me wonder
SF> how it "knows" it lost a key, and if it does, why can't it just keep
SF> up.

Emacs does NOT know... And does NOT beep. This is done by the whatever server.

I got another suggestion. Keys are fetched by Emacs using ASTs. If you type
fast, you might get more active ASTs than you process' ASTLIM. The answer
might be to increase ASTLIM, either on per-user basis, or by increasing
PQL_MASTLM in SYSGEN.

SF> I always hoped that later versions will correct that.  I see that as
SF> of 18.58 it's still a problem. :-(

I have the same problem. I haven't tried the ASTLIM thingy... it's just
a theory so far.

>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?

True, Emacs switches the terminal to PASTHRU.

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