* bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
@ 2016-06-23 6:33 H. Dieter Wilhelm
2016-06-23 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: H. Dieter Wilhelm @ 2016-06-23 6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 23831
I'm calling from "emacs -Q" the info system with `C-h i' and any
character in Info between quotes are just displayed with a rectangular
box. I'm compiling Emacs on an elderly RHEL at work. What can I do to
enable Emacs to display the info files in a readable way?
Thank you very much
Dieter
In GNU Emacs 25.0.95.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23)
of 2016-06-22 built on sbav106x.vs.de.conti.de
Windowing system distributor 'Red Hat, Inc.', version 11.0.11500000
System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Configured using:
'configure --with-gif=no'
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF PNG SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS
LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11
Important settings:
value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Info
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
buffer-read-only: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Composing main Info directory...done
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail
rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode cl-loaddefs pcase
cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils info easymenu time-date mule-util tooltip
eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win
term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang
misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms
cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help
simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces
cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format
env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 91409 5137)
(symbols 48 19958 0)
(miscs 40 63 186)
(strings 32 16092 4306)
(string-bytes 1 560678)
(vectors 16 12919)
(vector-slots 8 440175 5108)
(floats 8 169 127)
(intervals 56 309 1036)
(buffers 976 13)
(heap 1024 36723 2346))
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Kelkheim, Germany
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread* bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
2016-06-23 6:33 bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6 H. Dieter Wilhelm
@ 2016-06-23 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-23 17:10 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2016-06-23 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: H. Dieter Wilhelm; +Cc: 23831
> From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 08:33:50 +0200
>
> I'm calling from "emacs -Q" the info system with `C-h i' and any
> character in Info between quotes are just displayed with a rectangular
> box. I'm compiling Emacs on an elderly RHEL at work. What can I do to
> enable Emacs to display the info files in a readable way?
I think you want to customize the variable 'text-quoting-style'.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
2016-06-23 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2016-06-23 17:10 ` Glenn Morris
2016-06-24 16:23 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2016-06-23 17:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: H. Dieter Wilhelm, 23831
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I'm calling from "emacs -Q" the info system with `C-h i' and any
>> character in Info between quotes are just displayed with a rectangular
>> box. I'm compiling Emacs on an elderly RHEL at work. What can I do to
>> enable Emacs to display the info files in a readable way?
>
> I think you want to customize the variable 'text-quoting-style'.
That doesn't make any difference to this issue. This does:
(eval-after-load "info" '(copy-face 'default 'Info-quoted))
One final try to repeat my comments from bug#19889 and 22207:
Viewing Info files is an important part of Emacs. I think it is a
mistake to break the rendering of them in this way, even if it's only on
a small fraction of systems, for the sake of a very minor (and IMO
arguable; cf http://debbugs.gnu.org/19889#115: "an ugly font") cosmetic
improvement on the rest.
Please make Info-quoted face inherit from either default or
font-lock-string (on emacs-25, the situation is somewhat better on
master).
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
2016-06-23 17:10 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2016-06-24 16:23 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2019-11-08 4:09 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: H. Dieter Wilhelm @ 2016-06-24 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 23831, Glenn Morris
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> I'm calling from "emacs -Q" the info system with `C-h i' and any
>>> character in Info between quotes are just displayed with a rectangular
>>> box. I'm compiling Emacs on an elderly RHEL at work. What can I do to
>>> enable Emacs to display the info files in a readable way?
>>
>> I think you want to customize the variable 'text-quoting-style'.
>
> That doesn't make any difference to this issue.
That is true.
What I found strange is though that it also didn't change the actual
quoting characters in my *info* buffer, do I have to restart Emacs for
t-q-s to take effect?
> This does:
> (eval-after-load "info" '(copy-face 'default 'Info-quoted))
That is also true. :-)
Thanks a lot!
Dieter
>
> One final try to repeat my comments from bug#19889 and 22207:
>
>
> Viewing Info files is an important part of Emacs. I think it is a
> mistake to break the rendering of them in this way, even if it's only on
> a small fraction of systems, for the sake of a very minor (and IMO
> arguable; cf http://debbugs.gnu.org/19889#115: "an ugly font") cosmetic
> improvement on the rest.
>
> Please make Info-quoted face inherit from either default or
> font-lock-string (on emacs-25, the situation is somewhat better on
> master).
>
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Kelkheim, Germany
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread* bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
2016-06-24 16:23 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
@ 2019-11-08 4:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-08 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2019-11-08 4:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: H. Dieter Wilhelm; +Cc: 23831
dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm calling from "emacs -Q" the info system with `C-h i' and any
>>>> character in Info between quotes are just displayed with a rectangular
>>>> box. I'm compiling Emacs on an elderly RHEL at work. What can I do to
>>>> enable Emacs to display the info files in a readable way?
>>>
>>> I think you want to customize the variable 'text-quoting-style'.
>>
>> That doesn't make any difference to this issue.
>
> That is true.
>
> What I found strange is though that it also didn't change the actual
> quoting characters in my *info* buffer, do I have to restart Emacs for
> t-q-s to take effect?
>
>> This does:
>> (eval-after-load "info" '(copy-face 'default 'Info-quoted))
>
> That is also true. :-)
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Dieter
>
>>
>> One final try to repeat my comments from bug#19889 and 22207:
>>
>>
>> Viewing Info files is an important part of Emacs. I think it is a
>> mistake to break the rendering of them in this way, even if it's only on
>> a small fraction of systems, for the sake of a very minor (and IMO
>> arguable; cf http://debbugs.gnu.org/19889#115: "an ugly font") cosmetic
>> improvement on the rest.
>>
>> Please make Info-quoted face inherit from either default or
>> font-lock-string (on emacs-25, the situation is somewhat better on
>> master).
>>
It seems like the OP has found the fix for his problem, but is there
anything more to do here?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
2019-11-08 4:09 ` Stefan Kangas
@ 2019-11-08 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-12 2:09 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-11-08 10:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Kangas; +Cc: dieter, 23831
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:09:56 +0100
> Cc: 23831@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> It seems like the OP has found the fix for his problem, but is there
> anything more to do here?
No, I don't think so. We nowadays probe the display for the ability
to show these characters, and use ASCII replacements if not, so I
think the situation now is better than then.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
2019-11-08 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2020-08-12 2:09 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2020-08-12 2:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: dieter, 23831-done
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:09:56 +0100
>> Cc: 23831@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> It seems like the OP has found the fix for his problem, but is there
>> anything more to do here?
>
> No, I don't think so. We nowadays probe the display for the ability
> to show these characters, and use ASCII replacements if not, so I
> think the situation now is better than then.
Thanks. I'm therefore closing this bug report.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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2016-06-23 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-23 17:10 ` Glenn Morris
2016-06-24 16:23 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
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