Using Emacs master with the NeXTStep interface on macOS, I get display corruption on lines where features such as Flymake, Flycheck, or diff-hl display something in the fringe. This is a bit hard to describe, so I'm attaching a screen shot, and I've also made a short movie of this happening:
Steps to reproduce:
1. Build or obtain Emacs from master (I did both, report data below is with nightly build from
emacsformacosx.com[1])
2. ~/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
3. Change font to Menlo 9 pt (default font here is Menlo 12 pt)
4. M-x find-library RET flymake RET (or open any file where Flymake will produce anything in the fringe)
5. Turn on Flymake: M-x flymake-mode RET
6. M-x flymake-goto-next-error RET so that point moves to a line where Flymake has indicated an error/warning/whatever in the left fringe
7. Move left and right on the line (using arrow keys or C-f/C-b)
Expected results: point moves but the line is otherwise unchanged
Observed results: parts/most/all of the line starts turning grey-on-grey as you move left/right
Just to be clear, this makes Emacs GUI unusable for me on macOS as long as I want to use anything that utilizes the fringe.
Additional information:
* The display corruption will linger on lines if you have multiple lines with something in the fringe in the viewport and you move vertically between them
* This problem does not happen with Flymake and the default 12 pt Menlo font
* I have not seen this problem occur on lines without something in the fringe, even when using the smaller-than-default Menlo 9 pt font
* This doesn't happen for me on the emacs-26 branch at any font size
* I have also reproduced this with the Fira Mono font at 8 pt (which is my normal font)
I am using macOS 10.13.6 on a late 2013 MacBook Pro 15" that has a Retina ("high DPI") display.
Happy to provide more information or do more troubleshooting, just let me know. Thanks! Dale
In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0, NS appkit-1348.17 Version 10.10.5 (Build 14F2511))
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1561
System Description: Mac OS X 10.13.6
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Quit
Entering debugger...
Back to top level
nil
Flymake mode enabled in current buffer
Mark set
Mark saved where search started [2 times]
Making completion list...
Configured using:
'configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application
Support/Emacs/site-lisp' --with-modules'
Configured features:
NOTIFY KQUEUE ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES
THREADS
Important settings:
value of $LC_COLLATE: C
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Emacs-Lisp
Minor modes in effect:
flymake-mode: t
diff-auto-refine-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
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
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt bytecomp
byte-compile cconv dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec
password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs
time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev
gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
mail-prsvr mail-utils misearch multi-isearch autoload lisp-mnt checkdoc
cl-macs gv cl-seq flymake-proc flymake compile comint ansi-color ring
warnings thingatpt help-fns radix-tree cl-print debug backtrace
help-mode find-func cl-loaddefs cl-lib vc-git diff-mode easymenu
easy-mmode elec-pair tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util
term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode
prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932
hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic
chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook
help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs
button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5
base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns multi-tty make-network-process emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 228548 14897)
(symbols 48 22728 1)
(strings 32 36845 2246)
(string-bytes 1 1015461)
(vectors 16 44960)
(vector-slots 8 1500556 164302)
(floats 8 56 213)
(intervals 56 719 269)
(buffers 992 17))
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