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

[Gordon Ross]

spoke too soon.  it's still acting crazy with the default font.
even the blinking cursor leaves spaces much of the time,
requiring refreshes (CTRL-L) etc.   Ideas?


On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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