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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
To: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
Cc: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Odd block highlighting [master build]
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:44:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_==dwR1jKK8ooU_J-CuW5FtuexX5GF8_9JidBUY0_p0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOj2CQQPocq01KtOdntREHYufUzBNig-arsTpman8EDZVS2UjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:35 PM, John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lately I have been seeing this odd block highlighting issue in the
>> master build. Unfortunately I do not know how to recreate the issue,
>> and the rough estimate from when this started happening is also bad
>> (some time last month).
>>
>> The best way to explain this issue is this gif:
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/yXLBoLO.gifv
>>
>> For some reason, the region between lines 24 and 42 gets highlighted
>> (not selected) when the mouse cursor hovers on any text in that
>> region. These two points are not fixed; this could happen at random in
>> different files.
[...]
>> - Where can I start looking so that I can provide a useful bug report? As even disabling all minor modes and changing to fundamental mode retains this issue, I do not what else to look at.

Check for text properties and/or overlays on the affected region with C-u C-x =

>
> I don't have any insight into this, but I noticed that the highlighting
> (and the change in your mouse cursor) seems to mirror what happens when
> you move your mouse over the strings. Since you didn't mention the thing
> with the strings, is it safe to assume that's expected?
>
> If so, what major/minor mode provides that functionality? From a
> position of ignorance, my first thought is that it seems related.

I was wondering about this too.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-20 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-20 18:44 Odd block highlighting [master build] Kaushal Modi
2016-09-20 18:47 ` Odd block highlighting [emacs-25 branch build] (Was: .. master build]) Kaushal Modi
2016-09-20 19:35 ` Odd block highlighting [master build] John Mastro
2016-09-20 19:44   ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2016-09-20 19:50     ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-20 20:06       ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-20 20:10         ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-20 20:53           ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-20 21:48             ` Noam Postavsky
2016-09-20 20:49         ` John Mastro
2016-09-20 20:58           ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-20 19:45   ` Kaushal Modi

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