After some minor testing I can say that it seems to fix it for me too. Thank you very much Neil!
Thank you - I can confirm that that fixes it.
X leaks pixmaps on window switch
scite503.tgz still shows version as 5.0.2 (it contains 502 in version.txt). - not a big problem though.
CPPFLAGS is C Pre-processor flags. For C++ flags, you use CXXFLAGS. See https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-Variables.html .
I'm the one who reported the "From the mailing list:" above - For me it's much better if I only have to resize the window before it behaves properly, rather than the scrollbar might be in the wrong position at any time no matter what I do.
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Sorry about that - Try these version of the diffs instead.