Subject: bug#11390: 24.1.50; Emacs on OSX -- strange artifacts in the buffer

From: Eugene Dedits <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:16:07 -0400

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In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
of 2012-05-01 on pde
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038
Configured using:
`configure '--with-ns' '--prefix=/Users/eugene/tmp/emacs/build''

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Attached screenshot shows strange artifacts that appear *some times* when I
-- scroll buffer with the mouse wheel
-- switch to some other application and back

These artifacts disappear if I
-- select region
-- increase\decrease font size
-- move cursor over those positions

This seems to be independent of the major mode.

If I use smaller font size (Monaco 10pt, no antialiasing) this never happens. For any bigger
font size (Monaco 12pt and up, antialiased) these artifacts show up.

I was able to reproduce it using
-- my own build of emacs 24.1.50
-- latest pre-builds found on EmacsForOSX
-- latest Aquamacs
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Thanks,
Eugene.

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