[oi-dev] Whoa! emacs broken? (spaces replace much of what I type)

[Gordon Ross]

Hm... so I got rid of a default font setting I had in my .emacs and
that seems to have cleared this up.  I had "Courrier New" -- no idea
why that didn't work...


On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running this emacs:
> pkg:/editor/gnu-emacs/gnu-emacs-gtk at 24.3-2015.0.1.0
> when I type something in the minibuffer, such as:
> ESC-! echo "This is a test. How much of this do I see?"
> The minibuffer shows me something like:
> " his  s a  es  ow m ch o  his o   se "
>
> Now if I just hit enter, what I actually types comes out, so emacs
> does know what I typed, and just can't seem to display it.   Ideas
> what's going on?
>
> I also noticed emacs looks strange when I started it up, like
> something was amiss with fonts or something.  Possibly related?
>
> Anyone seen either of these oddities?
>
> Thanks,
> Gordon