Re: font handling broken in cvs emacs --with-ns (MacOS X)

[Ian Eure <ian@digg.com>]

On Jan 4, 2009, at 10:28 AM, B Smith-Mannschott wrote:

> I've found what I believe to be a host of bugs and misbehaviors in the
> font handling on Mac OS when built to use the native GUI toolkit
> (--with-ns) from the current development sources. I'd like to gather
> some feedback before filing a bug report. Have others observed this as
> well?
>
I'm running my own Cocoa builds from CVS[1]. As of the 2009/01/02  
build, I'm able to change the font by:

1. Selecting an Emacs frame - in this case, containing one window with  
an ERC buffer visible.
2. Going to Options -> Set Default Font in the menubar.
3. Choosing Courier from the font menu.


I offer the following observations:

  - Changing the default font from preferences doesn't work for me.  
Perhaps it sets the default, but doesn't apply it? Have you tried  
setting it, saving customizations, quitting and restarting Emacs?

  - Changing via Options->Set Default Font works for me.

  - Changing via M-x set-default-font RET courier RET works for me.  
Also worked to switch back to Monaco.

Hope this helps,
  - Ian


[1]: http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/