Upgrade from Emacs 22.3 to 23.2

Upgrade from Emacs 22.3 to 23.2

[gerald.jean]

Hello,

recently our IT upgraded Emacs from 22.3 to 23.2.  Using exactly the same
.emacs file the fontification and the colors are very different.

M-x list-colors-display   yields:

22.3 --- 542 colors and gray shades.
23.2 ---     3 colors.

I use font-lock a lot and now some words are so pale I can't even read
them.  What is causing that?  is there a way around it?  could it be
compilation flags?

This is under RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 on a 64-bit machine.

Thanks for any support,

Gérald Jean
Conseiller senior en statistiques,
VP Actuariat et Solutions d'assurances,
Desjardins Groupe d'Assurances Générales
télephone            : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639)
télecopieur          : (418) 835-6657
courrier électronique: gerald.jean@dgag.ca

"We believe in God, others must bring Data."

W. Edwards Deming

Re: Upgrade from Emacs 22.3 to 23.2

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/11/5  <gerald.jean@dgag.ca>:
>
> Hello,
>
> recently our IT upgraded Emacs from 22.3 to 23.2.  Using exactly the same
> .emacs file the fontification and the colors are very different.
>
> M-x list-colors-display   yields:
>
> 22.3 --- 542 colors and gray shades.
> 23.2 ---     3 colors.
>
> I use font-lock a lot and now some words are so pale I can't even read
> them.  What is causing that?  is there a way around it?  could it be
> compilation flags?
>
> This is under RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 on a 64-bit machine.
>
> Thanks for any support,
>
> Gérald Jean
> Conseiller senior en statistiques,
> VP Actuariat et Solutions d'assurances,
> Desjardins Groupe d'Assurances Générales
> télephone            : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639)
> télecopieur          : (418) 835-6657
> courrier électronique: gerald.jean@dgag.ca
>
> "We believe in God, others must bring Data."
>
> W. Edwards Deming
>
>
>

It would be helpful if you did M-x report-emacs-bug and show us more
details about your version.

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: Upgrade from Emacs 22.3 to 23.2

[gerald.jean]

Here is the output of M-x report-emacs-bug

From: Gerald Jean <jeg002@actul01.dgdom.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 23.2; Display color issues from Emacs 22.3 to 23.2 on RedHat.
--text follows this line--
This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
not to your local site managers!
Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list,
and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 recently our IT upgraded Emacs from 22.3 to 23.2.  Using exactly the same
 .emacs file the fontification and the colors are very different.

 M-x list-colors-display   yields:

 22.3 --- 542 colors and gray shades.
 23.2 ---     3 colors.

 I use font-lock a lot and now some words are so pale I can't even read
 them.  What is causing that?  is there a way around it?  could it be
 compilation flags?

 This is under RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 on a 64-bit machine.

Note that Emacs 23.1 yields exactly the same problem as described with
23.2.  The three versions of Emacs are now installed on the machine,
they all use the same ".emacs" file, 22.3 doesn't display the problem.
I also run 23.1 here, at work, on a Windows machine and 23.1 at home on
Ubuntu Linux, both are fine and do not display the problem.  Following
you'll find the specific of "M-x report-emacs-bug" for 23.2.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
/usr/local/share/emacs/23.2/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2010-11-03 on actul01.dgdom.net
Windowing system distributor `Citrix Systems Inc', version 11.0.58023
configured using `configure  '--with-gif=no' '--with-tiff=no''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: fr_CA
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: fr_CA
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_US
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US
  value of $LC_TIME: fr_CA
  value of $LANG: fr_CA
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
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  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
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  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x b C-s <return> M-x b u g SPC r e SPC C-a C-k r
e p o r t SPC e m a SPC SPC <return>

Recent messages:
Sorting environment...
Removing duplicates... done
Loading
/actuaria/jeg002/RechMark/Corpo/2010/TauxSoumission/LaTeX/auto/TauxSoum.el
(source)...done
Loading /home/jeg002/LaTeX/Bibliographie/auto/Statistiques.el
(source)...done
Loading /home/jeg002/LaTeX/auto/preamble.el (source)...done
Applying style hooks... done
OVERVIEW
Wrote /home/jeg002/.emacs.desktop.lock
Desktop: 20 buffers restored.
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> a écrit sur 2010/11/05 20:53:28 :

> 2010/11/5  <gerald.jean@dgag.ca>:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > recently our IT upgraded Emacs from 22.3 to 23.2.  Using exactly the
same
> > .emacs file the fontification and the colors are very different.
> >
> > M-x list-colors-display   yields:
> >
> > 22.3 --- 542 colors and gray shades.
> > 23.2 ---     3 colors.
> >
> > I use font-lock a lot and now some words are so pale I can't even read
> > them.  What is causing that?  is there a way around it?  could it be
> > compilation flags?
> >
> > This is under RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 on a 64-bit machine.
> >
> > Thanks for any support,
> >
> > Gérald Jean
> > Conseiller senior en statistiques,
> > VP Actuariat et Solutions d'assurances,
> > Desjardins Groupe d'Assurances Générales
> > télephone            : (418) 835-4900 poste (7639)
> > télecopieur          : (418) 835-6657
> > courrier électronique: gerald.jean@dgag.ca
> >
> > "We believe in God, others must bring Data."
> >
> > W. Edwards Deming
> >
> >
> >
>
> It would be helpful if you did M-x report-emacs-bug and show us more
> details about your version.
>
> --
> Deniz Dogan

Re: Upgrade from Emacs 22.3 to 23.2

[Wolfgang Zweimueller]

gerald.jean@dgag.ca writes:

> M-x list-colors-display   yields:
>
> 22.3 --- 542 colors and gray shades.
> 23.2 ---     3 colors.

23.1.50 --- 546 colors and gray shades
            here on Ubuntu 10.10/64bit

cu,
Wolfgang