Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 21:06:41 +0300 From: "Eli Zaretskii" Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il To: clc5q AT cobra DOT cs DOT Virginia DOT EDU (Clark L. Coleman) Message-Id: <9003-Thu03May2001210641+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.6 (via feedmail 8.3.emacs20_6 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <9cs17e$ohe$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> (clc5q AT cobra DOT cs DOT Virginia DOT EDU) Subject: Re: Emacs crashes with fast arrow keys References: <9cs17e$ohe$1 AT murdoch DOT acc DOT Virginia DOT EDU> Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > From: clc5q AT cobra DOT cs DOT Virginia DOT EDU (Clark L. Coleman) > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > Date: 3 May 2001 16:32:46 GMT > > I have DJGPP installed in Windows NT 4.0 SP6a. Emacs 20.5 seems to > simply disappear from the screen frequently if I try to move around by > holding down an arrow key. Does it ``disappear'' as in ``silently exit', or does it crash with some message? The difference is important. > I have seen this the most with up and left > arrows, but also with down. I have seen it crash when I was at the end > of a line and held down left arrow and it had only gone left about 10 > columns before crashing. Up arrow has crashed it numerous times when > it has gone up less than two screens. If this only happens when you press and hold an arrow key, try lowering the keyboard autorepeat rate (via Control Panel). > I did not find anything in the FAQ about this, and have not seen the > problem on Solaris or other Unix versions of emacs. Has anyone else > experienced this? Any ideas? FWIW, I never see this neither on plain DOS nor on Windows 95 or Windows 98. IIRC, this is the first time I hear about such a problem on any platform. In any case, NT4 is not a very good platform to run DJGPP programs in general, see section 3.3 of the FAQ for the gory details.