Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!amara!khai From: khai@amara.uucp (S. Khai Mong) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: GNU emacs skipping input characters under VMS Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 89 16:46:10 GMT Sender: khai@amara.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: Applied Dynamics International, Inc. Lines: 15 I have installed GNU emacs 18.52 under VMS 5.0. Everything works fine except for one irritating thing. Occasionally, some keystrokes would be missed. It is particularly noticeable when the function keys are or auto repeat keys are held down. In such cases, an 'ESC' character may sometimes have slipped, resulting in the remaining esc sequence bein inserted into the buffer --- a dangerous situation. Seems to be some input buffer overflow problem or bad interrupt handling of QIO? Has anybody else experienced similar problems and any ideas how to correct it? -- Sao Khai Mong: Applied Dynamics, 3800 Stone School Road, Ann Arbor, Mi48108 (313)973-1300 (uunet|sharkey)!amara!khai khai%amara.uucp@mailgw.cc.umich.edu