Re: Red text in Emacs 23

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM,  <antonjhohl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 23, 11:16 am, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM,  <antonjh...@gmail.com> 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. This
>> > 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 do
>> > I disable it? If the latter, do you know if this is an Emacs issue or
>> > 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

   emacs -Q