From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#2504: 23.0.90; new-frame => "no font backend available." 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([124.13.6.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y3sm5136161tia.23.2009.02.28.06.36.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:36:55 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:03:42 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:25850 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:24015 Archived-At: David Abrahams wrote: > I think MacOS Emacs isn't very resilient to customizations for other > platforms that should be ignored. For example, my > > default-frame-alist > > is > > ((menu-bar-lines . 1) (font-backend . "xft") (font . "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10.5") (tool-bar-lines . 0)) > > But `M-x new-frame' causes emacs to report "no font backend available" > without opening a new window. > This is no different than setting (font-backend . "garbage") on any platform. If you have platform specific settings in your .emacs which you want to share between platforms, then you need to make them conditional.