Re: overlays turn off text colors

[Gerd Moellmann]

"David Ponce" <dponce@voila.fr> writes:

> In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X toolkit)
>  of Fri Jun 16 2000 on node1
> configured using `configure  --with-x-toolkit=yes'
> 
> When an overlay is created just using (make-overlay BEG END) the text 
> colors are turned off between BEG and END.
> 
> Seems to occurs only in my Solaris version of Emacs. Works well on my NT
> -Emacs 20.7.1.

Thanks for the report, David.  Strangly, this doesn't happen on my
system (FreeBSD).

I'd say it's worth hunting this down, since the next release (21.1)
will include the new redisplay, where all this stuff has been rewritten
anyway.