> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 20:35:18 +0000 > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > > > What is "screen overwriting" in this context? > > When instead of adding lines to the bottom, new lines are added on top > of and replace existing lines. I prefer the scrollable terminal > behaviour to the teletype behaviour of Emacs when running the > Linux(?) monitor program 'top', but being a fuddy duddy I prefer the > teletype behaviour of Emacs for 'man'. From an error message from > 'info', it seems that the Emacs buffer is classified as a 'dumb' > terminal.
Try customizing scroll-conservatively, it sounds like you want that.
