bug#2690: 23.0.91; line spacing with X servers

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE> writes:

> GNU Emacsen 22.x do not show this effect. Today I made two tests: I
> first compiled GNU Emacs 22.3 with the X11R7.3 software – no effect on
> line spacing, in neither X servers, everything's OK. And I compiled
> GNU Emacs 23.0.91, updated today, with Apple's X11R6.6 and some
> "auxiliary" software (GTK, libs TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RSVG, XPM) from
> X11R6.6 based Fink project (installed in /sw tree). It shows the too
> tight line spacing effect in X11R7.3. All use libfontconfig 1 or 2 and
> libfreetype. Libotf is not used. The X11R6.6 version does not use
> libXft, for which I can't check the cause because the configure.log
> file is just a few 100 bytes long.
>
> I did not check with lsof that the Emacs binaries are really using
> those shared libraries they are linked to (I rely on the output of
> otool, Apple's ldd command), but I can check upon request. Do you have
> an explanation for the X server's behaviour? And also a cure?
>
> There is another effect in *shell* buffer: just pressing RET on an
> empty line positions the cursor in the next line in column 0, at the
> beginning of the prompt (%n ! /\  in tcsh) which is customised and not
> manipulated by ANSI.

This bug report was previously marked "unreproducible".  Are you still
seeing this problem in Emacs 24.3?

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