From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 16815@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16815: 24.3.50; Provide completion for `describe-font' (enhancement request)
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 19:25:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wocii41v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0eadz8a.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:23:01 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, 16815@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:23:01 +0100
>
> I'm not sure I understand the objection here. The form suggested by
> Drew just gets a list of font names -- it doesn't load anything, so it
> should be harmless?
A list of many hundreds of long strings is not cheap. However, ...
> And the doc string of describe-font seems to be wrong. You can ask it
> to describe a font that's not loaded. Or at least it seems that way
> when I test it.
... yes, you are right, sorry. So please also fix the doc string of
describe-font and the comments inside it, and also the doc string of
font-info, which it calls.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-19 21:03 bug#16815: 24.3.50; Provide completion for `describe-font' (enhancement request) Drew Adams
2016-04-29 17:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-29 18:39 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-29 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-02 16:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-02 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-03 15:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <<640c1da6-43a2-4c50-b50f-675f0b316b8b@default>
[not found] ` <<831t5ow76o.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-04-29 19:33 ` Drew Adams
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