Re: Bug: XEmacs doesn’t display Control-characters correctly anymore

[Jerry James]

On Jan 18, 2008 5:13 AM, Mike FABIAN <mfabian at suse.de> wrote:
> For details see
>
>     http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354705
>
> XEmacs version is:
>
> (emacs-version)
> "XEmacs 21.5  (beta28) \"fuki\" (+CVS-20071205) [Lucid] (x86_64-suse-linux, Mule) of Mon Jan 14 2008 on magellan"
>
> Problem description:
>
> If one inserts a control character like Control-L or Control-M
> in to an XEmacs buffer, these characters used to be displayed
> as ^L and ^M respectively (One can input a Control-L by typing
> C-q C-l).
>
> Now, Control-L is just displayed as 'L', without the '^' in front
> which makes it very hard to see. If there is a string which contained
> such a Control character it used to look like for example
>
>     hello^Lworld
>
> but now it looks like
>
>     helloLworld
>
> When moving the cursor over this string, the cursor used to
> sit on the ^ when reaching the Control-L, then jump to the
> next character (here 'w') when moving it right.
>
> Now, the cursor disappears completely when it reaches the Control-L
> and appears again when the 'w' is reached.
>
> This is very confusing and annoying.

I get the correct behavior using an XEmacs I built from CVS this
morning and packages built from CVS a couple of days ago, on an x86_64
Fedora 8 machine.  Can you send a M-x report-emacs-bug generated
report so that we can see how yours is configured differently from
mine?
-- 
Jerry James
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