Re: Trouble setting default font and window size

[Ron House <rhouse@smartchat.net.au>]

On 29/07/16 01:30, HASM wrote:
>
>> Last, you can use ~/.Xresources to move a lot of that stuff from the
>> Emacs init files and also from the invocation command-line arguments.
>
> I push this into my xrdb:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Emacs*geometry:   100x50
> Emacs.menuBar:              off
> Emacs.toolBar:              off
> Emacs.horizontalScrollBars: off
> Emacs.verticalScrollBars:   off
> Emacs.background:           #304060
> Emacs.foreground:           white
> Emacs.Font: "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-m-110-iso8859-15"
> -----------------------------------------------------------------

I tried this, but got inexplicable errors - despite xlsfonts showing my 
font, it nevertheless claimed it was a nonexistent font when I started 
emacs. It's not worth spending more time on this, but I did discover one 
important fact that someone working on emacs might or might not be 
interested in:

My earlier speculation about the timing of the bug was wrong. All the 
mis-scaling occurs in processing the single setup line:

(custom-set-faces
  '(default ((t (:inherit nil :stipple nil :inverse-video nil :box nil 
:strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight 
normal :height 90 :width normal :foundry "bitstream" :family "Bitstream 
Vera Sans Mono"))))
...

When that default line is in, all the wrong stuff happens, without it, 
none of it does. So it seems that instead of changing all the specs and 
then redisplaying, emacs is changing some settings, displaying, then 
changing some more and displaying again, instead of changing all 
settings and displaying only once.

Pity it wasn't a simple fix, but thanks to all for your time and effort!

-- 
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