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Add note aboute using `inverse-video' to detect excessive screen redraw.
author Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
date Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:41:04 +0000
parents 4881cd839f12
children c3ac662ac2a3
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--- a/etc/DEBUG	Fri Dec 15 08:30:40 2000 +0000
+++ b/etc/DEBUG	Fri Dec 15 11:41:04 2000 +0000
@@ -112,3 +112,8 @@
 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.