[Bug: 21.5-b27] xemacs loses buffered keystrokes over ssh

[Andrew Walrond]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 15:06 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Ed Avis writes:
> 
>  > xemacs seems to lose buffered keystrokes.  That is, on a slow machine,
> 
> What do you mean by "slow"?  Your Installation suggests that you have
> a 2.66GHz 4-CPU machine....
> 
>  > if I type quickly, then keystrokes disappear if xemacs hasn't had time
>  > to process them.
>  > 
>  > I am running xemacs in text mode over ssh.  I don't see this problem
>  > with xemacs running locally, nor with any other program run over ssh.
> 
> There is a known problem where the Linux kernel, ssh, and XEmacs
> interact badly.  It also affects GNU Emacs.  It's been a while since
> I've heard such reports, so your issue may be something different.
> I'll have to dig up those reports; there was a workaround (some
> unusual way to configure XEmacs or ssh).
> 

I had exactly this problem with b27, but it is fixed in recent cvs
versions. (I'm running a debug version of cvs compiled 64bit on a
sparc64 (Sun T1000 Niagra, 6core) machine, and it has all manner of
other crash problems, but this, at least, has been fixed ;)

Andrew Walrond