From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Cannot change font style/size with font menu Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:11:38 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <2110-Thu21Mar2002211137+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016738303 26840 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2002 19:18:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16o84t-0006ym-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:18:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16o84s-0004PC-00; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:18:22 -0500 Original-Received: from thor.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.11]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16o82K-0004DL-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:15:44 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky (diup-219-131.inter.net.il [213.8.219.131]) by thor.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 2.9.3.2) with ESMTP id AAI47287; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:15:18 +0200 (IST) Original-To: tcross@pobox.une.edu.au X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-Reply-To: (message from Tim Cross on Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:23:29 +1100) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:32 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:32 > From: Tim Cross > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:23:29 +1100 > > Attempting to change the font style/size with the font menu accessed > via shift+mouse-1 has no effect if the user has a ~/.emacs. With no > ~/.emacs or if you start emacs with -q, then the font menu works as > expected. e.g. > > emacs & -- font menu does not have any effect > emacs -q -no-site-file -- font menu works as expected > emacs --no-site-file -- font menu does not work > emacs -q -- font menu works as expected. Thank for reporting this, but I cannot reproduce this on my system (also a Debian GNU/Linux). > I have found this happens even if the only values in the .emacs file > are lines added by customize (ie no user added code, only emacs added > code). Please post those lines. Do you observe the problem with an empty .emacs file as well? > When attempting to change the font from courier -> misc or misc -> > courier or change the font size, all that happens is the screen > flashes, jumps to a larger size for a brief flash and then just > returns to its same size and font - i.e. no effect. Does it happen with every font you have in the menu popped up by Emacs when you press S-mouse-1? Or do some fonts work? _______________________________________________ Bug-gnu-emacs mailing list Bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-emacs