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29.0.50; Italics cause fill column indicator misalignment

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From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.0.50; Italics cause fill column indicator misalignment
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 13:00:01 -0300

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I believe the attached screenshot describes the issue well enough.

Best regards,
Carlos

—

In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin20.6.0, NS
appkit-2022.60 Version 11.6 (Build 20G165))
 of 2021-10-02 built on Carloss-MacBook-Pro.local
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2022
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[Fill indicator.png (image/png, attachment)]

Message #8 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50;
 Italics cause fill column indicator misalignment
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:24:14 +0300

> From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 13:00:01 -0300
> 
> I believe the attached screenshot describes the issue well enough.

Which font is that?  I cannot reproduce with the default font Emacs
uses here.  Do you see the same results with all monospaced fonts,
once you customize the comment face to use italics?

Message #11 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50;
 Italics cause fill column indicator misalignment
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 15:02:08 -0300

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Which font is that?  I cannot reproduce with the default font Emacs
uses here.  Do you see the same results with all monospaced fonts,
once you customize the comment face to use italics?


Source Code Pro, but it doesn’t seem to be relevant.

I have been able to reproduce it with a minimal setup (see the
attached screenshot):

(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
(setq fill-column 80)
(global-display-fill-column-indicator-mode)
(custom-set-faces
 '(default ((t (:height 160))))
 '(font-lock-comment-face ((t (:slant italic))))

The problem is that it doesn’t always happen, I had to restart emacs
many times (I’m doing `emacs .emacs.d/init.el` one time after another)
until the issue happened. Due to the random nature of the issue it’s
not possible to ascertain that the (:height 160) part is strictly
necessary, but let’s say that I’ve rejected the null hypothesis that
the issue happens at default font size, but maybe it’s that I’m
shortsighted enough as to not perceive it at the smaller font size.
BTW, the default font in my system is Menlo.

Best regards,
Carlos

[Minimal Setup 2.png (image/png, attachment)]

Message #14 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50;
 Italics cause fill column indicator misalignment
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 21:27:29 +0300

> From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 15:02:08 -0300
> Cc: 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Which font is that?  I cannot reproduce with the default font Emacs
> uses here.  Do you see the same results with all monospaced fonts,
> once you customize the comment face to use italics?
> 
> 
> Source Code Pro, but it doesn’t seem to be relevant.
> 
> I have been able to reproduce it with a minimal setup (see the
> attached screenshot):
> 
> (setq inhibit-startup-screen t)
> (setq fill-column 80)
> (global-display-fill-column-indicator-mode)
> (custom-set-faces
>  '(default ((t (:height 160))))
>  '(font-lock-comment-face ((t (:slant italic))))

Doesn't reproduce here with these settings.

> The problem is that it doesn’t always happen, I had to restart emacs
> many times (I’m doing `emacs .emacs.d/init.el` one time after another)
> until the issue happened. Due to the random nature of the issue it’s
> not possible to ascertain that the (:height 160) part is strictly
> necessary, but let’s say that I’ve rejected the null hypothesis that
> the issue happens at default font size, but maybe it’s that I’m
> shortsighted enough as to not perceive it at the smaller font size.

That's too bad, because it means I have no reliable recipe to
reproduce and debug the problem...

Does anyone else see this and can provide a reproducible recipe?

Message #17 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50; Italics cause fill column indicator
 misalignment
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 15:35:22 -0300

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> That's too bad, because it means I have no reliable recipe to
> reproduce and debug the problem...

Indeed it is. If you know of anything that could be affected by subtle timing issues or something like that, just let me know and I will do my best in order to test it.

Just in case, here is the dump for the minimal configuration:

In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin20.6.0, NS appkit-2022.60 Version 11.6 (Build 20G165))
 of 2021-10-02 built on Carloss-MacBook-Pro.local
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2022
System Description:  macOS 11.6

Configured using:
 'configure --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules
 --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus <at> 28/28.0.50/share/info/emacs
 --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus <at> 28/28.0.50 --with-xml2
 --with-gnutls --without-dbus --with-imagemagick --with-modules
 --with-rsvg --with-ns --disable-ns-self-contained'

Configured features:
ACL GLIB GMP GNUTLS IMAGEMAGICK JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY
KQUEUE NS PDUMPER PNG RSVG THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS XIM ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_CTYPE: UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_AR.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: ELisp/d

Minor modes in effect:
  global-display-fill-column-indicator-mode: t
  display-fill-column-indicator-mode: t
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  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
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  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
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  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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Message #20 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50; Italics cause fill column indicator
 misalignment
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 21:36:30 +0300

> From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 15:35:22 -0300
> Cc: 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  That's too bad, because it means I have no reliable recipe to
>  reproduce and debug the problem...
> 
> Indeed it is. If you know of anything that could be affected by subtle timing issues or something like that, just
> let me know and I will do my best in order to test it.
> 
> Just in case, here is the dump for the minimal configuration:
> 
> In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin20.6.0, NS appkit-2022.60 Version 11.6 (Build
> 20G165))
>  of 2021-10-02 built on Carloss-MacBook-Pro.local
> Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2022
> System Description:  macOS 11.6

Maybe it's specific to macOS?

Message #23 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50; Italics cause fill column indicator
 misalignment
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 16:54:44 -0300

Well, I’ve done literally thousands of restarts in different combinations of emacs versions, extensions, etc. Each new combination was tested in at least 100 restarts. This is what I can say:

* It never happened with 27.2 in any combination.
* With a minimal configuration it still happens in 28, but at a very low frequency (maybe < 1/100).
* The same after recompiling all my extensions.
* It never happened after removing the elpa directory altogether.
* Having global company mode enabled is what raises the frequency (> 1/10).

My highlights on the above (taking into account that “never" means “not yet seen”):

* The problem is likely in 28, not in 27.2.
* I would say it’s always waiting there but some setups make it more frequent.
* Enabling company is the easiest way to (probabilistic) reproducibility I’ve found.

BTW, I now feel authorized to say that startup time has improved a lot, any specific optimization there?

Message #26 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50; Italics cause fill column indicator
 misalignment
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 23:36:29 +0200

Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com> writes:

> My highlights on the above (taking into account that “never" means
> “not yet seen”):
>
> * The problem is likely in 28, not in 27.2.
> * I would say it’s always waiting there but some setups make it more frequent.
> * Enabling company is the easiest way to (probabilistic)
> reproducibility I’ve found.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

Do you still see this issue with the current "master"?

Message #31 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50; Italics cause fill column indicator
 misalignment
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 23:24:38 -0300

Hi Lars,

> Do you still see this issue with the current "master”?

I won’t be able to test this for the next few weeks, but I’ve been using 28 for months and have never seen this again, so I’d say that you can safely close it.

> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved at the time.)

Thanks!

Message #34 received at 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 50970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50970: 29.0.50; Italics cause fill column indicator
 misalignment
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:08:49 +0200

Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I won’t be able to test this for the next few weeks, but I’ve been
> using 28 for months and have never seen this again, so I’d say that
> you can safely close it.

OK; done.

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