Thanks, Detlev. I have recently installed Eric on a Powerbook (also running OS 
10.11) and there is no flashing in the editor there (??). just on my iMacs. 
Very strange indeed.

David

> On Nov 22, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Detlev Offenbach <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am observing this flashing as well. However, it only shows on Mac OS X. I 
> haven’t seen this on Linux. This indicates, that it is not related to eric 
> but rather Qt5 or PyQt5. Both thing cannot be changed by me. What I realized 
> as well (and again only on Mac OS X) is, that the configuration window 
> disappears behind the main eric window, when the color or font picker dialog 
> is closed. This is not related to eric (at least I have no idea what could 
> cause such a weird behavior).
> 
> Btw, sorry for answering a bit late but I was busy.
> 
> Regards,
> Detlev
> 
>> Am 06.11.2015 um 16:04 schrieb David Beck <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> I’m having some very strange problems with the Eric editor. When I press a 
>> character key (but not a return key), the line I’m typing on goes black from 
>> one edge of the window to the other. I wondered if it might have to do with 
>> the Editor > Style > Colours preferences, but I can’t alter those (pressing 
>> “Okay” on the OS colour picker causes the preferences window to close). 
>> Otherwise, everything functions okay. But the flashing black highlighting is 
>> really annoying.
>> 
>> I’m working on an iMac running OS 10.11, Qt 5.5.1, sip-4.17, PyQt 5.5, Eric 
>> 6.0.11. The problem started when I upgraded to Qt 5.5 a couple of months 
>> ago. At the time I was using slightly earlier versions of all the other 
>> packages as well. 
>> 
>> David
>> 
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