Hi Alan,
  I've attached a small text file...my regex is foo...and I just hit return
to take the default color of hi-yellow.
  Thanks for the compliment on the bug report (I do write&debug software so
I've tried to be specific!)...should I send this message to the address
below?

 Thanks,
 Dale

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:

> Hi, Dale!
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:16:46PM -0700, Dale wrote:
> > Hi All, not sure where to issue potential bug reports. Apologies if
> > I'm in the wrong place.
>
> bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org is the bug place, but no worries!
>
> > I'm running GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>
> > Running the following scenario caused hi-lock to automatically disable
> > for me.
> > emacs -Q
> > M-x eval-expression
> > (global-hi-lock-mode 1)
> > ;; load a file at this point
> > C-x w h
> > ;; type in my regex, and it is successfully highlighted after picking
> > my color
>
> > ;; the second instantiation of the command causes issues
> > C-x w   ;; results in "C-x w is undefined" in the message bar.
>
> >  Has anyone else seen this? or am I doing something incorrectly?
>
> Yes, this has happened to me sporadically, and it's irritated me
> something rotten.  It's been one of these things which isn't quite bad
> enough to warrant full-scale debugging, yet bad enough to irk.  ;-)
>
> Trouble is, I can't now reproduce it now with your recipe (above).  ;-(
>
> From the way you describe it, I'm assuming that you can make the bug
> happen repeatedly.  The only thing you haven't specified precisely above
> is what file you're loading and what regexp you type.  (In general, a
> brilliant bug report, by the way.)
>
> Any chance you could supply the file and state the regexp?  Best would
> be if you could include a small source file in your post, or give the
> name of, say, an Emacs source file.
>
> > Thanks,
> >  Dale
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>