0;301;0cOn Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 01:00:24AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> I've noticed something odd when using true type fonts in xterm. When a
> region of text is highlighted in a color, it sometimes disappears.
> When the next block of text changes color, it's back. This is perhaps
> easiest to observe in vim where random keywords disappear from code,
> but can also be observed running pygmentize. Scrolling or refreshing
> the screen with ^L makes it come back, but sometimes other text
> disappears.
>
> i.e., consider the following snippet.
> const char *
> foo(void) {
> return "string";
>
> I open this in vim, and it looks like:
> const char *
> foo(void) {
> return ;
>
> oops, my string disappeared. I redraw, and now it looks like
> const char *
> foo( ) {
> return "string";
>
> oops, void has disappeared.
>
> I haven't gotten this to occur with a fixed font. Unfortunately, I
> only started using true type fonts this week, so I'm not sure when
> this started occuring or what update my have caused it.
>
Hi,
I use TrueType fonts in xterm everyday, but I'm not a vim user and
never saw that with emacs; can you provide some more info to try to
reproduce it ? a vim config file, the Xresources you use to configure
you TrueType fonts ?
--
Matthieu Herrb
