Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: '(defun' fine. Now I try to add a space after the n. In stead of the (yellow) cursor moving on and shopwing space between iteself and the 'n', I get a yellow block two characters wide. Interesting, that happens for me too, it does really seem to be a bug in gnome-terminal. It doesn't seem to happen if font-locking is turned off. ...

... concrete example. I have a buffer in Emacs-Lisp mode, and type the characters '(defun' fine. Now I try to add a space after the n. In stead of the (yellow) cursor moving on and shopwing space between iteself and the 'n', I get a yellow block two characters wide. Now I examine exactly what sort of characters are present, by selecting the text and submitting it on standard input to cat -...