original url - https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102/
30 October 2016
Public Emacs has flickered for 30 years. Now, it should be flicker-free. I’ve just landed support for double-buffered rendering for the X11 port. Now you should be able to edit, resize, and introduce bugs in your awful codebase without seeing a partially-rendered buffer or being incited to murder by barely-perceptible white flashes while editing that