>>>> "MT" == Matt Tucker
<tuck(a)whistlingfish.net> writes:
MT> -- Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se> spake thusly:
>>>>>> "John" == John M Adams
<jmadams(a)stsci.edu> writes:
>
John> Marco Walther <marcow(a)jena.eng.sun.com> writes:
> >> When I start a fresh XEmacs (21.4.1) everything is fine.
I
> load a lot >> of stuff including VM, JDE, XAE, CC-mode and
> everything is still fine >> but at one point in time I see these
> highlights staying around. I >> could not yet figure out what
> triggers this change in behavoir:-( But >> I'll try to find out.
>
John> I've experienced this on solaris8. When not wanting to
> start a fresh John> XEmacs, I've been able to get this
back into
> a decent state by John> diddling with the parenthesis setting via
> the menus.
>
> This has happened to me on Solaris 2.7, 21.2.46 and earlier. Haven't
> had it happen on 21.4.x yet. It seems that this happens when I've
> been running some shell (like ilisp) running inside xemacs that's
> producing a fair amount of output.
>
> It's quite annoying and I haven't figured out what causes or how to
> fix it. I always end of quitting.
MT> I've had this happen with paren-mode 'paren as well. I haven't yet
MT> looked into it enough to fix it, although I think it usually starts
MT> happening after some error occurs.
MT> A better workaround than quitting/restarting is to do:
MT> M-x paren-set-mode (repeat until paren-mode is off)
MT> C-x C-v RET (find-alternate-file: same filename)
MT> M-x paren-set-mode (repeat until it's what you want)
Once the problem showed up here, it showed up in all buffers I looked
at, including the VM INBOX Presentation and normal text mode buffers!
Than this workaround would rather be lenghtly:-(
(XEmacs 21.4 (patch 1) "Copyleft" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) of
Thu Apr 19 2001 on jena)
So at least I'm not the only one seeing this problem;-)
Thanks,
-- Marco
MT> A small chunk of lisp could be used to do the same thing, but I'd
MT> rather keep the problem just annoying enough to work around that
MT> eventually it pushes me past the "must solve it properly" threshold.
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