Symptom: Highlight on buttons disappears when `force-mode-line-update` runs Reproduce: - emacs -q - (run-at-time 0 0.3 'force-mode-line-update) - M-x customize (for it has a bunch of buttons) - Move cursor to a button, the highlight disappears in a blink Sincerely, Yuan In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0, NS appkit-1561.60 Version 10.13.6 (Build 17G65)) of 2018-08-21 built on missSilver Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1671 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Configured using: 'configure --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus/26.1/share/info/emacs --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus/26.1 --with-xml2 --without-dbus --with-gnutls --with-imagemagick --with-modules --with-rsvg --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained' Configured features: JPEG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES THREADS LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: en_US.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils elec-pair time-date tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote kqueue cocoa ns lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 204151 9641) (symbols 48 20185 1) (miscs 40 70 162) (strings 32 28905 1351) (string-bytes 1 764039) (vectors 16 34995) (vector-slots 8 713652 9800) (floats 8 48 68) (intervals 56 220 0) (buffers 992 12))