From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ross@rosslaird.info (Ross A. Laird) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: textual artifacts Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:59:46 -0800 Message-ID: <877i4w4fhp.fsf@rosslaird.info> References: <87eiz5xdm7.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232042465 5377 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 18:01:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:01:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 19:02:17 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 1LNWXa-0001x2-8f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:02:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNWWJ-0006hd-OI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNWVr-0006fs-AP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNWVm-0006d3-8K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34376 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNWVm-0006cz-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:10 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:53277 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNWVl-00023p-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LNWVd-0001pH-7X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:00:01 +0000 Original-Received: from h24-207-49-95.dlt.dccnet.com ([24.207.49.95]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:00:01 +0000 Original-Received: from ross by h24-207-49-95.dlt.dccnet.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:00:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h24-207-49-95.dlt.dccnet.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QPb5wkfbUJbW/e+OIcPRqtN9OXw= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61366 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > You don't give any idnication of how old that snapshot is. Some of the > emacs-snapshot packages I've seen are very old - in fact, I saw a ubuntu > one today that had a date in 2007!!! Yes, I was using an older ubuntu package, which I have since upgraded to a newer version from December 08. And presto, the issue seems to have gone away. But as you say, this may crop up again, so I will try: > M-x font-lock-fontify-buffer > What you are observing are probably intermidiate bugs in the > code. Also it may be compiz. There seem to be some related issues there. Thanks for the help. -- Ross A. Laird, PhD www.rosslaird.info