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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Emacs 24.1 and colours
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>
>> I just installed Emacs 24.1 on Mac OS X Lion, and found that my Ada code
>> seemed to have been eaten away. For example, if the code said
>>    "with Foo;"
>> it would appear as
>>    "with    ;"
>
> This doesn't happen for me on Windows 7 (just upgraded today :).
>
>> This is to do with colouring in font-lock-mode.
>>
>> I posted a note about a workround at
>> http://forward-in-code.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/where-did-my-constants-go.html.
>
> that says the problem is font-lock-constant-face, which is set to "dark
> cyan" by default.
>
> On my system, font-lock-constant-face is set to 'font-lock-constant-face,
> which is confusing :). Using Options | Customize Emacs | Specific Face
> ..., I can see it is set to "CadetBlue".
>
> I don't know why that would be different on a different OS.

Nor do I.

Did you see the note I added to that blog entry?

"Of course, I could have checked on Google: the problem appears to be
caused by an old version of Emacs (from 2005) leaving droppings[1].

"Remove ~/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr, restart Emacs, and all is well.

"[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.macintosh.osx/6639"