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To understand why this is a problem, remember that screen updates are
calculated between two representations of the <EM>entire</EM> display. The
-documentation says that when you refresh a window, it is first copied to to the
+documentation says that when you refresh a window, it is first copied to the
virtual screen, and then changes are calculated to update the physical screen
(and applied to the terminal). But "copied to" is not very specific, and
subtle differences in how copying works can produce different behaviors in the
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