From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master d014a5e: Use fixed-pitch font for display-line-numbers Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:00:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170711151708.4322.33014@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20170711151709.2AE9822E0A@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <8760eyv7mc.fsf@holos> <83h8yhiuy3.fsf@gnu.org> <83wp7cgwie.fsf@gnu.org> <83k23cgny7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500001252 3862 195.159.176.226 (14 Jul 2017 03:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:00:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 14 05:00:42 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dVqqQ-0000Oi-Ho for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:00:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVqqU-0002J6-Ad for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42421) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVqqN-0002Ip-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVqqH-0004cC-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34984 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVqqH-0004aw-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dVqq5-0007qD-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:00:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ockQ64HcrXvAKfHfhI2Wdsw+t24= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216629 Archived-At: >> > And fixed-pitch definitely doesn't yield the >> > same font as the default face on my system. >> I would suggest that is a bug. > It's not a bug, since the code was written to produce that effect. (I > think similar issue happens in the NS build.) I think this is mostly a historical accident. I think it's reasonable for the user to expect that fixed-pitch is "any fixed-pitch font, ideally close to the `default` font". We could add a fixed-pitch-sans-serif face if there's a need for such a thing. Stefan