Hi, thanks for helping! 

Just tried opening with emacs -Q. Results are the same. 

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

Harumph Frog <harumph.frog@gmail.com> writes:

> I upgraded my emacs recently to 24.2 cocoa using homebrew, and now org-mode
> is pretty much useless in the terminal. The problem is more irritating than
> it would be if it didn't work at all, which would give me a clue as to how
> to fix it. When I'm editing a list (using the asterisk), and contract or
> expand the elements of the list (using tab), all kinds of weirdness occurs.
> Some list items will suddenly duplicate. Some list items will disappear
> completely. Items will be pushed way down the page, and then jump back up.
> This is all happening as I'm pushing nothing but tab.

Did you try with emacs -Q? If so, is the result the same?

> I've uninstalled, reinstalled emacs using brew. I installed the latest
> version of org-mode (and confirmed that emacs was using it) without any
> change, so I switched back to the version that came with the latest release
> of emacs. I've done a lot of googling but can't find anyone who has had
> this problem with org-mode. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 Emacs 24.2 org-version 7.8.11

Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou