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Written by Andrew Wigglesworth on 2024-10-02 at 11:23

[#]Emacs has started to do something a bit odd today (OK, I know, no jokes about the oddity of Emacs please).

When Emacs is running in a desktop window and I press C-x C-f to visit a file (proper grown-up Emacs terminology, right?), I get what is in the first image. As soon as I start typing, or start choosing an option it all goes back to normal (second image).

If Emacs is full screen, everything acts normally.

What might be going on here?

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Written by Andrew Wigglesworth on 2024-10-02 at 11:29

PS. I just opened emacs -nw in a terminal emulator, and it acts fine.

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Written by arialdo on 2024-10-02 at 11:37

@ecadre Any chance this has to do with orderless? Do I understand it correct, the problem is only when Emacs does not run in a terminal?

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Written by Andrew Wigglesworth on 2024-10-02 at 12:12

@arialdo The magic of #emacs.

I must have installed or done something in the last day or so that messed with a package somewhere. I've been so busy I can't remember.

Anyway, I decided that I ought to update the packages, and afterwards, the problem went away. "Just like that" as Tommy Cooper used to say :-D

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Written by arialdo on 2024-10-02 at 12:39

@ecadre That's weird! Lucky that it's fixed now, a pity that we will never find out what the root cause was.

Don't you have a reproducible setup based on init.el?

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Written by Andrew Wigglesworth on 2024-10-02 at 12:52

@arialdo Nope, I've of course noticed Guix and all that, but I've not really tried it for anything.

Maybe one day I might give a Guix setup a go, but at the moment Debian is still my thing , around 25 years or more.

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Written by arialdo on 2024-10-02 at 13:29

@ecadre I also have to try guix.

So far, I just have an init.el with (use-package) lines, and I refrain from installing things manually. Works decently so far!

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Written by Andrew Wigglesworth on 2024-10-02 at 14:53

@arialdo Ah, doing it like that is not a bad idea. I have a few "use-package" lines, but have not used it consistently. I was thinking about this just the other day.

My init file is an #Org file using org-babel that is referred to in the traditional .emacs file.

I started using #GNU #Emacs before the package manager was introduced (in GNU Emacs 24 I think) and still have one or two things (major modes) loaded from the elisp folder.

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