bug#14838: 24.3.50; repeating next-line or previous-line is broken

[Stephen Berman]

On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:29:55 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  14838@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:19:44 +0200
>> 
>> With emacs -Q, where the problem with holding down C-n does not happen
>> (when I have no ~/.Xresources file):
>> 
>> face-remapping-alist => nil
>> (frame-parameter nil 'font) =>
>> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"
>> (face-font 'default) =>
>> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"
>> 
>> and after setting the default font to one that does cause the problem:
>> 
>> face-remapping-alist => nil
>> (frame-parameter nil 'font) =>
>> "-Adobe-Adobe Courier-normal-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-90-iso10646-1"
>> (face-font 'default) =>
>> "-Adobe-Adobe Courier-normal-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-90-iso10646-1"
>
> Please try trunk revision 113410 or later.  If the problem with slow
> scrolling is not solved by it, please tell what did I do wrong in
> default-font-height.  It is supposed not to call font-info in your
> case.

With that revision the problem is now solved, so I'm closing the bug.
FWIW, I don't see it with the ~/.Xresources file now, either (though it
remains a mystery why that was apparently also triggering the problem,
but one not worth keeping this bug open for).  Thanks very much for
fixing this.

Steve Berman