emacs 25 choses fonts with different average width for 7x13 font, making bold text take more horizontal space. This is particularly a problem when using themes like
https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs which use bold to hihglight matching parenthesis in show-paren-mode, causing characters to shift as the cursor is moved from a parenthesis to a non-parenthesis character.
Repro that demonstrates the problem in both 25 pretest 1 and current head (but is perfectly ok in emacs 24):
$ emacs -Q --eval '(progn (set-face-font '\''default "7x13") (print (face-font "default")) (print (face-font "bold")))'
shows
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
Notice the jump from 70 to 80 before the iso8859 component - that's the average width, and that's what I believe is causing bold characters to render wider than non-bold ones. Both are 70 in emacs 24.
Below is the diagnostics output from M-x report-emacs-bug:
In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2016-02-22 built on alexk1
Repository revision: 81ef756e6aea369ec78f19b3609f01ceddc5851f
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
System Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (upgraded from: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS)
Configured using:
'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid'
Configured features:
XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF
GSETTINGS NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Features:
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custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting x-toolkit x
multi-tty make-network-process emacs)