#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?
Yes, it acts fine in a terminal, and if full screen (f11) on the desktop.
I don't use orderless so it can't be that.
Thanks for the idea though.
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
@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?
@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.
@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.
It runs ido-find-file , which is what I'd expected. Thanks, it was a good idea to check that.
I just did an update on all the installed packages (I'd left it a little longer than I should), and the odd behaviour seems to have resolved itself.
Hey ho.
Andrew Wigglesworth
arialdo
qed