Hi Juri, Thank you very much for the detailed test case. > Previously I tried in the MATE terminal emulator, > but xterm-256color was an essential detail indeed. > Now I was able to reproduce with TERM="xterm-256color" > and to track down the source of this problem. > > It happens while the color "ForestGreen" is loaded for > the face font-lock-type-face that has this definition: > > (((class color) (min-colors 16) (background light)) > :foreground "ForestGreen") > > by tty-color-canonicalize. > > Could you please try this patch to see if it fixes the problem: > > diff --git a/lisp/term/tty-colors.el b/lisp/term/tty-colors.el > index 307586f221..5af8170203 100644 > --- a/lisp/term/tty-colors.el > +++ b/lisp/term/tty-colors.el > @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ tty-color-canonicalize > "Return COLOR in canonical form. > A canonicalized color name is all-lower case, with any blanks removed." > (let ((case-fold-search nil)) > - (if (string-match "[A-Z ]" color) > + (if (string-match-p "[A-Z ]" color) > (replace-regexp-in-string " +" "" (downcase color)) > color))) > Thank you for root-causing this! The patch you provided does indeed fix the issue for me. Best, Jayden