Re: Have to run redraw-display manually

[Emanuel Berg]

Cos Chan wrote:

> I have a problem while using zsh 5.7.1 and GNU Emacs 26.1.
> The Emacs is none X.

... you mean a terminal Emacs, i.e. not in X?

emacs-nox rings a semi-distant bell but that isn't in the
Debian 11 repos what I can see. (I'm also on Debian with zsh
and a terminal Emacs (in the Linux VT/tty/console) BTW.)

> I have the same problem in Debian 10, 11 and FreeBSD 12, 13.
> I assume it is not an OS related problem.

Sounds like a character/terminal emulator issue ...

> The problem is moving point by M-b/M-f/C-up/C-down or kill
> words/line, the display would be wrong. The point or the
> characters would be in the wrong places until I manually run
> M-x redraw-display to get it back.
>
> I can easily reproduce this problem in zsh, which is gone
> while the shell is switched to tcsh.

Sounds like a shell/terminal emulator charmap mismatch ...

Start by upgrading your stuff (suggestion) ... I have

$ uname -a
Linux ebih 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u2
(2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -d -s
Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

$ zsh --version
zsh 5.8 (x86_64-debian-linux-gnu)

C-u M-x emacs-version RET
GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, cairo
version 1.16.0) of 2021-08-27

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