From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19889: bug#22207: emacs-25 mishandles info code text on Fedora 23 Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 09:50:50 +0300 Message-ID: <838tzmfjjp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56744F95.20307@cs.ucla.edu> <951925e4-e3ed-0367-721a-7241546f4013@cs.ucla.edu> <3u37pwfb2n.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <838tznhe9v.fsf@gnu.org> <9e47cf3a-8a15-f0d0-66db-4fffb7dcee38@cs.ucla.edu> <83inyrf6lw.fsf@gnu.org> <4201e7d9-9143-b02b-909d-8665d32d6eae@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462603885 20932 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2016 06:51:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 06:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19889@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 08:51:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw51-0005A7-75 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 08:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw50-0007NX-Ni for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:51:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53423) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4u-0007ES-Sb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:51:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4s-0003WV-FL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4s-0003WR-Bj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4s-00028j-6M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 06:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19889 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19889-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19889.14626038508201 (code B ref 19889); Sat, 07 May 2016 06:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19889) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 May 2016 06:50:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42229 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4f-00028D-ND for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34181) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4e-000281-97 for 19889@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:50:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4W-0003Ny-5j for 19889@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4V-0003Nu-W8; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3655 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ayw4Q-0004El-Sc; Sat, 07 May 2016 02:50:35 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 06 May 2016 15:32:43 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:117942 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rgm@gnu.org, 19889@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 15:32:43 -0400 > > > The problem is, which font to specify explicitly? Not all platforms > > have a font named "Courier". > > That's what face-font-family-alternatives is for. We already have an > entry in there for "courier", so it just needs to be completed. But if what we want is a specific font, then adding its family will produce unreliable results, and might well yield a font we don't want in some setups. IOW, what you suggest was already tried, and found to fail in some cases. We are trying to fix those cases, so using the same technique we already know is faulty sounds unwise to me.