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25.1; hl-line-mode makes text disappear

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From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1; hl-line-mode makes text disappear
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:50:22 +0000

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From emacs -Q:
M-x global-hl-line-mode
then open a file and move around with C-n

Text at the current line disappears seemingly at random. It comes back
eventually and/or if I do C-l.

It does this regardless of major mode and I experienced the behavior in
24.5 and 25.1




In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.9)
 of 2016-09-18 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11804000
System Description:    Arch Linux

Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe
 -fstack-protector-strong' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'

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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Global Hl-Line mode enabled

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None found.

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Message #8 received at 24463 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24463 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24463: 25.1; hl-line-mode makes text disappear
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:39:15 +0300

> From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:50:22 +0000
> 
> From emacs -Q:
> M-x global-hl-line-mode
> then open a file and move around with C-n
> 
> Text at the current line disappears seemingly at random. It comes back eventually and/or if I do C-l. 
> 
> It does this regardless of major mode and I experienced the behavior in 24.5 and 25.1 

I cannot reproduce this at all, with neither of the 2 versions.

Message #11 received at 24463 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24463 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24463: 25.1; hl-line-mode makes text disappear
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:14:44 +0000

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Thanks for responding.

After more investigation, it turns out that hl-line-mode is not responsible
for this - I was having this issue in emacs -Q whenever emacs redrew text
(which just happened much more frequently in hl-line-mode). Sometimes it
would disappear, and sometimes it would duplicate the last line when
scrolling down. I tried using Gnome on Wayland instead of X and did not
experience this issue. But other things did not work in wayland.

Since the Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/intel_graphics)
suggests that the kernel modesetting may be better than the intel graphics
package, I uninstalled that package just to see if that would fix the
issue. After uninstalling and rebooting the computer, I have not
experienced this weird disappearing/duplicating text issue.

I don't know enough about this to tell whether this is a bug in that intel
graphics package or emacs.

Thanks again!

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:39 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:50:22 +0000
> >
> > From emacs -Q:
> > M-x global-hl-line-mode
> > then open a file and move around with C-n
> >
> > Text at the current line disappears seemingly at random. It comes back
> eventually and/or if I do C-l.
> >
> > It does this regardless of major mode and I experienced the behavior in
> 24.5 and 25.1
>
> I cannot reproduce this at all, with neither of the 2 versions.
>

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Message #16 received at 24463-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24463-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24463: 25.1; hl-line-mode makes text disappear
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:26:19 +0300

> From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:14:44 +0000
> Cc: 24463 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Since the Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/intel_graphics) suggests that the kernel modesetting
> may be better than the intel graphics package, I uninstalled that package just to see if that would fix the issue.
> After uninstalling and rebooting the computer, I have not experienced this weird disappearing/duplicating text
> issue. 
> 
> I don't know enough about this to tell whether this is a bug in that intel graphics package or emacs. 

I'm quite sure it's not an Emacs problem.

Thanks, I'm closing the bug report.

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