bug#58135: 29.0.50; Typing getting garbled in mail-mode

[Robert Marshall]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > Cc: 58135@debbugs.gnu.org
 > > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 15:44:50 +0000
 > > From: Robert Marshall <robert@capuchin.co.uk>
 > > 
 > >  > > Typically I'm seeing characters not appearing and then the buffered
 > >  > > text appears all at once in a randomised 'wodge'. I've just this 
 > > morning typed
 > >  > > Matt and ttaM appeared on the screen, I don't think I'd have pressed
 > >  > > the shift key in such a wildly incorrect place.  Another example - "to
 > >  > > discuss?" came out as "tsis?d oucs" (without the quotes)
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Typically none of *this* message came out garbled but it's a more or 
 > > less daily
 > >  > > event.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Is Emacs otherwise responsive to non-keyboard input during the wedge
 > >  > preceeding the ``wodge''?  One way to find out is to see if a relief
 > >  > appears on tool bar buttons if you move your mouse over them during that
 > >  > period.
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > I don't tend to see the scrambling until it's done (: too focussed on
 > > the keyboard! What seems to be the case is that the problem happens
 > > during an auto save - so emacs won't be responsive, when it comes out
 > > of that pause, the letters buffered up appear but not in the correct 
 > > order. I
 > > have a fairly large INBOX (in vm) that I sometimes don't save for a
 > > bit so auto saving can take a few seconds.
 > 
 > Is the wrong order real, or just on display?  IOW, what happens if you
 > save the buffer to a file -- do you see the wrong order in the file as
 > well?
 > 

I saved a buffer containing garbled "r dehsangul ce" - I typed "rules
changed" to a file and the contents of the file were as in the buffer
- so the wrong order was real rather than just being displayed.

Robert