error: Fontset `tty' does not exist when running the Emacs with *emacs -nw*

error: Fontset `tty' does not exist when running the Emacs with *emacs -nw*

[Hongyi Zhao]

Dear Kenichi,

When I run Emacs as this:

% emacs -nw

I meet the error message as the following:

=================
An error has occurred while loading `/home/zhaohs/.emacs':

error: Fontset `tty' does not exist

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

=================

So I run Emacs as this:

% emacs -nw --debug-init

The time, I get the Debugger-entered--Lisp error as this:

=====================
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Fontset `tty' does not exist")
  set-fontset-font("tty" (131072 . 195101) ("*-Sun-ExtB" . "unicode-sip"))
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/zhaohs/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading
at $
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/zhaohs/.emacs" "/home/zhaohs/.emacs" t t)
  load("~/.emacs" t t)
  #[nil "^H\205\276^@   \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202A^@
\311=\2033^@\312\307\31$
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()
=====================

I don't know the reason.

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Re: error: Fontset `tty' does not exist when running the Emacs with *emacs -nw*

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <20061208102001.GA9616@localdomain>, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> % emacs -nw --debug-init

> The time, I get the Debugger-entered--Lisp error as this:

> =====================
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Fontset `tty' does not exist")
>   set-fontset-font("tty" (131072 . 195101) ("*-Sun-ExtB" . "unicode-sip"))
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/zhaohs/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading
> at $
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/zhaohs/.emacs" "/home/zhaohs/.emacs" t t)
>   load("~/.emacs" t t)
>   #[nil "^H\205\276^@   \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202A^@
> \311=\2033^@\312\307\31$
>   command-line()
>   normal-top-level()
> =====================

In your .emacs, please use a code something like this:

(if (display-graphic-p)
    (set-fontset-font ...))

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org