Subject: bug#50462: 27.2; emacsclient syntax highlight failure

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:36:16 +0300

> From: RDS <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 11:11:20 -0700
> 
> Initially everything behaves as expected in console & X. Then on time scales ranging from minutes to hours
> with the various emacsclients, randomly switching among tty's & killing / loading buffers, I eventually see
> that .bashrc is displayed with "missing" chars.

Are they really missing, or just displayed with the same foreground
and background colors?  What happens if you move the cursor (with C-f
or C-b) across the "missing" text?

Also, do you see any error messages in the *Messages* buffer when this
happens?