From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8426: Glyph and cursor problem with emacs Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:57:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83sjtwvdo8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4D9AE9A6.2010401@ssl.co.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302023251 5467 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2011 17:07:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8426@debbugs.gnu.org To: matthew@ssl.co.uk Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 19:07:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q79iv-0005hq-GV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:07:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q79iu-0002W1-PJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43814 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q79im-0002MW-Lj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q79il-0000oP-Nn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55242) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q79il-0000oL-MN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q79Zq-0005de-HU; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:58:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8426 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8426-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8426.130202266921654 (code B ref 8426); Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8426) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Apr 2011 16:57:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q79Zd-0005dD-4N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:57:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q79Za-0005d0-EN for 8426@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:57:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJ600A00V1NM500@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 8426@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:57:37 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.47.180]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJ6008X9V3ZFAJ0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:57:37 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4D9AE9A6.2010401@ssl.co.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:58:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45641 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:06:30 +0100 > From: Matthew Carey > Cc: > > I attach an image to make the point clear. Is that image after selecting the whole buffer, or is yellow the default background on that frame? Also, what font is being used here? You can see that by going to some of the characters and typing "C-u C-x =": Emacs will pop up a buffer which shows, among other things, what font is being used to display that character. > 1 No matter how many fonts I install emacs should be able to cope. Not if you install broken fonts, which, e.g., lie to Emacs about the character dimensions. (I'm not saying this is what happened, but just don't expect Emacs to "cope" with bad fonts.)