Thank you for your reply. > I was not unable to reproduce this problem with Emacs 23.1 (or 23.2) though. Is this problem only happen with me? I screenshoted emacs. and uploaded on flickr. you can see it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49116497@N07/5420874216/ highlighted "Pa","St","t" is still remain after moving cursor from the end of line. and also tested with another machine on same condition(ubuntu10.10, GNU Emacs 23.1.1) this is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/49116497@N07/5421072268/ highlighted charactor ("l", "e") are different, but symptom is same. I tested with another condition. (1) comment out initial-frame-alist (2) comment out inhibit-startup-message condition (1) and (2) work fine. but when I set three condition (initial-frame-alist, show-paren-mode, inhibit-startup-message), the bug appear.