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>> Date:    Thu, 09 Apr 92 20:31:37 GMT
>> To:      epoch@edu.uiuc.cs
>> 
>> From:    dunwoody@r2d2.gnu (Craig Dunwoody)
>> Subject: epoch 4.0.1 display corruption (Very Bad Thing)
>> 
>> Return-Path: <epoch-m@edu.uiuc.cs>
>> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>> Sender:  epoch-request@edu.uiuc.cs
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>> 
>> I just loaded epoch 4.0.1 (which as I understand it is the latest,
>> official-release version) on my Silicon Graphics 4D/70GT running IRIX 4.0.1.
>> 
>> I've been seeing display corruption problems.  When I visit a file,
>> move the cursor down a few lines, and insert a character, a character
>> after the insertion point will disappear.  At this point, merely
>> moving the cursor back and forth along the line will cause characters in the
>> line to appear and disappear.  This is Very Bad -- I've never seen anything
>> like this with epoch before.
>> 
>> M-x recenter restores the display to correctness, so the problem is not with
>> the underlying text data structure.  I don't think it's a font problem either
>> (I'm using *sony*120*, which is a normal-sized, fixed-width font); epoch
>> doesn't seem confused about where the character boundaries are.
>> 
[...]
>> 
>> Craig Dunwoody
>> dunwoody@sgi.com
>> (415) 962-3635


I have seen this a lot on a SUN4 with SunOS 4.1.1 on **EPOCH** **3.2**.

It seems to associated with buffer insertion and perhaps with mh-e.el?

It is very hard to duplicate.

Gordon,
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