* bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
@ 2014-03-13 10:28 David Englund
2014-03-13 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-31 17:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Englund @ 2014-03-13 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 17006
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All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as this
is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart Emacs.
Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test
fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the
font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is
not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected font.
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* bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
2014-03-13 10:28 bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font David Englund
@ 2014-03-13 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-13 21:04 ` Glenn Morris
2019-10-31 17:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2014-03-13 16:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Englund; +Cc: 17006
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:28:49 +0100
> From: David Englund <public@beloved.name>
>
> All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as this
> is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart Emacs.
> Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test
> fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the
> font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is
> not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected font.
Took me some time to understand what is this about. You are
complaining that the splash screen uses fonts different from any other
buffer, is that right?
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* bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
2014-03-13 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2014-03-13 21:04 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2014-03-13 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Englund, 17006
>> All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as this
>> is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart Emacs.
>> Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test
>> fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the
>> font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is
>> not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected font.
I'm not sure I buy this argument.
IME, splash screens normally look different to how an application
"normally" looks, and I don't expect to be able to customize a splash
screen.
I think it far more likely that people will visit a file to see how the
fonts look.
But I have no evidence (but I assume you don't either).
Having said that, it's not obvious to me that the fancy splash screen
really _needs_ to use variable-pitch face (if that it is what this
report is actually about).
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* bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
2014-03-13 10:28 bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font David Englund
2014-03-13 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2019-10-31 17:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-10-31 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Englund; +Cc: 17006
David Englund <public@beloved.name> writes:
> All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as
> this is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart
> Emacs. Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test
> fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the
> font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is
> not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected
> font.
I think the conclusion here is that Emacs works as designed in this
respect, and I'm closing this bug report.
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