Thanks Mark,

That's evocative.  Now I'm off to see how I let those bits rot.

All the best,
Tom

On May 25, 2010, at 7:26 AM, Mark Elston wrote:

On 5/25/2010 9:20 AM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
Thanks Bernt,

So, "broken custom settings" appear to be the cause of the unexpected
behavior. Two questions:

1) Do programmers have a name for this situation, where custom settings seemed to work perfectly for a long time but then failed noticeably with
the introduction of new, correct code into the .emacs?

Well, in an organization I used to work at we called it 'bit rot'
though it wasn't necessarily about Emacs ... :)

Mark

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