From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Halton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Red text in Emacs 23 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:44:38 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1ce78297-48a1-41da-9302-d11e7a0d2301@o36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> References: <4f9f5b6c-4405-42f4-a5cb-18a09d19be85@d32g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <5c74cf36-6175-4c85-a2fd-a8a443c45bf8@e22g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235746956 31422 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2009 15:02:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:02:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 27 16:03:51 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ld4FQ-000406-Va for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:03:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld4E6-0007Nf-8a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:02:10 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.33.190.115 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235727878 24366 127.0.0.1 (27 Feb 2009 09:44:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=217.33.190.115; posting-account=ekPJiQoAAADLkfEqr1-Y2HUZw-IpPx-P User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167129 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:59:36 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62434 Archived-At: On Feb 25, 6:44=A0am, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM, =A0 wrote: > > On Feb 23, 11:16=A0am, Lennart Borgman > > wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, =A0 wrote: > >> > I'm running Emacs 23.0.60.1 under EmacsW32 for Windows XP. On a lot = of > >> > buffers, the font face turns to red part-way through the buffer. Thi= s > >> > can typically be cleared by hitting "page up" or "page down", > >> > restoring the normal font colours. > > >> > Is this a feature, or is it likely to be a bug? If the former, how d= o > >> > I disable it? If the latter, do you know if this is an Emacs issue o= r > >> > should I report it to the EmacsW32 people? > > >> Sounds like a problem with nXhtml (which comes with EmacsW32). Can you > >> please send an example file? > > > Thanks for the response. I'm not sure it has anything to do with > > nXhtml (tried using nXhtml just now, without any problems). It seems > > to affect other modes. For example, if I run "M-x about-emacs" then > > the "*About GNU Emacs*" buffer is affected by this. In this case, the > > text turns red from "E564" (in "LENNART-69DE564") onwards. > > > It also affects more unusual, non-standard modes such as twitter.el > > and tagged.el, which is what made me wonder if this is due to some > > feature to highlight coding that is incompatible with Emacs 23 or > > something. > > Does it happen without your init files, ie if you start with > > =A0 =A0emacs -Q Ah! No, it doesn't. Will have a ferret around in my init files and see if there might be anything there. Do any general suggestions come to mind? My init.el files are a bit complicated to post here, though I can if necessary.