On 21 Aug 2008, at 03:33, Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> There were problems with this patch, e.g., ns-cursor-blink-rate not  
> defined
> which appears to have been corrected

Thanks Adrian for catching the missing checkin.

> but I still get grey strips which are
> opaque to the text until the cursor moves over them or I select the  
> region
> with the mouse.

Can you reproduce starting with Emacs -Q?
This may depend on your cursor type settings.
I can't reproduce this with Cocoa.

Or are we talking about the old ghost cursor problem:?