Re: Emacs 25.1 RC2 - sporadic display errors on Linux virtual terminal.

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On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Indeed.  Alan, what Eli is saying here is that the problem is unrelated
> to Emacs itself, it's a bug in your xterm program.

Not necessarily; maybe the problem is as simple as another program
writing to the terminal and its output getting interspersed with the
Emacs output?

Running
while sleep 1; do echo -n " "; done & DISPLAY=: emacs -Q
results in behavior similar to what Alan describes.