From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: x-font-family-list Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:58:37 -0500 Message-ID: <87tz875ncy.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <877i54jk3v.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231592344 19691 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2009 12:59:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 10 14:00:15 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LLdRm-0005x7-GN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:00:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLdQW-0003Rn-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:58:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLdQ5-0003Hn-Lw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLdQ4-0003HD-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47286 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLdQ3-0003H6-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:58:27 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:54717) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLdQ1-00069L-Lx; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 77BFA57E197; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:58:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:15:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107751 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> I don't think it's important, but am not sure whether there is any >> external code relying on it. Normally, this means that we should try to >> change the compatibility function and make it compatible. But, I don't >> know a simple way of computing whether a font is fixed-pitch using the >> new font code, without jumping through some ugly hoops (e.g., somehow >> turning each family name into an xlfd and examining its "monospace" >> entry). If no one can suggest a good method, let's just delete the >> function. > > Either delete it entirely, or make it signal an error. I've removed it from CVS.