Re: Cannot change font style/size with font menu

Re: Cannot change font style/size with font menu

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tim Cross <tcross@pobox.une.edu.au>
> 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?

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Re: Cannot change font style/size with font menu

[Eli Zaretskii]

[Please keep the discussion on the mailing list.]

> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:15:03 +1100
> From: Tim Cross <tcross@pobox.une.edu.au>
> 
> I have attached the .emacs file with this mail. 
> No, with a totally empty .emacs file, the font menus appear to work.

It's possible that your definition of the normal face prevents font
customizations.  Can you try removing (or commenting out) this line in
your .emacs:

     '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "wheat" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 180 :width normal :family "adobe-courier"))))

and see if this makes the problem go away?

If that doesn't help, please try selectively removing parts of this
.emacs until you find the minimal part that causes the problem.  It is
very hard to debug a problem that depends on so many customizations.

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