From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35816: 26.2; set-frame-font cannot set some fonts which autocomplete suggests due to dashes in names. I.e. gnu-unifont Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:48:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83v94ade1v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87v9y4o9i4.fsf@delllaptop.lockywolf.net> <87zhlodk4e.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87zgtnpzy4.fsf@gnus.org> <87eeazaija.fsf@igel.home> <87bl63pyi8.fsf@gnus.org> <877dgrpx2i.fsf@gnus.org> <83a6lndud6.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmuin8ze.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31048"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: lockywolf@gmail.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 35816@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 12 14:50:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mEAA1-0007ra-Hl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:50:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58174 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEA9z-0005GT-Ig for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:50:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEA9q-0005D2-7O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEA9q-0008Nb-0S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEA9p-0000DW-Uf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:50:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:50:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35816 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 35816-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35816.1628772546754 (code B ref 35816); Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:50:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35816) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Aug 2021 12:49:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37756 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEA8s-0000C2-Iw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49774) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mEA8n-0000BV-23 for 35816@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEA8h-0007s6-An; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:48:51 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1430 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mEA8g-0000hC-Kn; Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:48:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pmuin8ze.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:27:49 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:211663 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, lockywolf@gmail.com, 35816@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:27:49 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > set-frame-font is not the only API that accepts font names, and XLFD > > is not the only format of fonts Emacs accepts > > This bug was only about XLFD fonts, though. AFAIR, we eventually convert all the other forms into XLFD format. > > Also, perhaps set-face-font can now accept font names that > > include a dash which not only precedes a numeric size, in which case > > at least the doc string of set-face-font should be amended? > > I didn't see anything about dashes in the set-face-font doc string? The format of the font string specification varies based on the font system in use, but it can commonly be an X Logical Font Description (XLFD) string, or a simpler string like "Courier-10" or "courier:size=10". > > Finally, I think it would be good to have some tests for these issues, > > as much as possible (we cannot set fonts in batch mode, but perhaps > > using lower-level APIs that parse the font spec would allow such > > tests). > > I didn't find any Lisp-level interfaces that exposed this yesterday, but > I now see that `(font-spec :name ...)' was what I was looking for, so > I've added a couple of tests. Thanks!