From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Miles' patch still fixes xfaces.c
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 00:02:09 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m19KRur-000IeBC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200305262027.h4QKRtlO001787@rum.cs.yale.edu
The recent change to xfaces.c has not fixed the problem that
no one can permanently change
:weight bold
to
:weight normal
in the variable `mode-line-buffer-identification', which is
buffer-local and in other places.
As far as I know, this problem resulted from a change on 19 Nov 2002
in mode-line-buffer-identification
(Several other bugs also appeared at the same time.)
Although the bug does not look too bad with a plain vanilla instance
of Emacs, with an `10x20' font,
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1
the new bold creation technique fills in letters such as `m'
so that they become unreadable rectangles.
The word `Emacs' becomes unreadable.
Fortunately, Miles Bader posted a semi-fix on 18 Dec 2002. This was a
`semi-fix' because his code sometimes led to a race condition and a
crash in Emacs. But not very often.
Mile's patch is
diff -u -r1.266 xfaces.c
--- src/xfaces.c 17 Nov 2002 23:51:19 -0000 1.266
+++ src/xfaces.c 18 Dec 2002 05:26:34 -0000
and works with the new version of xfaces.c, version 1.277
(CVS from 2003 May 26 23:00 UTC)
However, it would be nice to see a clean fix to this problem, which is
to be able to specify any characteristic for `bold', including a
color, and including being able to set the weight of something that is
`bold' to `normal'.
The old messages are:
Bold by moving pixels problem
starting on 20 Nov 2002
signal handling bogosities
starting on 19 Dec 2002
The patch is from
From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Bold by moving pixels problem
Date: 18 Dec 2002 19:01:01 +0900
Thanks!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-27 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-26 20:27 Printing elisp char literals Stefan Monnier
2003-05-26 20:49 ` David Kastrup
2003-05-27 10:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-05-27 0:02 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2003-05-27 22:40 ` Miles' patch still fixes xfaces.c Richard Stallman
2003-05-28 0:46 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-05-31 19:52 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-31 21:43 ` Robert J. Chassell
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