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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Scrolling problem in xedit
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Date: 15 May 89 14:17:12 GMT
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> Date: 12 May 89 21:16:17 GMT
> From: "R.L.K.Dattatri" <opusys!rlkd@uunet.uu.net>
>
> Whenever I use
> the scroll bar to scroll text, the text moves up (down) but  new
> characters are not written at the old position.

Do you have a portion of the window obscured?  There is a known
bug in the Xaw/Text widget that causes regions obscured by other
windows to fail to refresh when scrolled.