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[alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alex Angerhofer)]

> This is a bug and only occurs with certain fonts --- the font I like
> to use being one of them :-)  My solution is to add the following to
> my .emacs (it changes the cursor to a red bar) There is probably a
> better way to fix it but I was in a hurry.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> ---------------snip here------------------
> ;;;
> ;; Change box cursor to bar
> ;;
> (setq initial-frame-alist
>       (cons '(cursor-type . bar) 
> 	    (cons '(cursor-color . "red") 
> 		  (copy-alist initial-frame-alist))))
> (setq default-frame-alist
>       (cons '(cursor-type . bar) 
> 	    (cons '(cursor-color . "red") 
> 		  (copy-alist default-frame-alist))))
> 

Dear Mark,

thanks _a_lot_ for the tip. This does solve the problem, perhaps not the
bug. I guess, I never really stumbled across this problem before because
I presumably used different fonts than the ones supplied as default in 
SuSE 6.2. On the other hand it is difficult to understand that a program
as seasoned as emacs (version 20.3.1) still contains stupid bugs like
this one. I would never have suspected this to be a bug, rather a 
misconfiguration for which I was somehow responsible.

Thanks again, Alex.

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