From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 16815@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16815: 24.3.50; Provide completion for `describe-font' (enhancement request)
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:23:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0eadz8a.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831t5ow76o.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:23:11 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> This is what I use, FWIW:
>>
>> (let ((fonts (make-hash-table :test #'equal))
>> (fontset-lst (fontset-list)))
>> (setq fontset-lst (delete "-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default"
>> fontset-lst))
>> (dolist (ft (append fontset-lst (x-list-fonts "*")) fonts)
>> (puthash ft t fonts)))
>
> IMO, this is madness: you are bloating the Emacs session with hundreds
> of fonts, most of which Emacs will never need to use, or even know
> about. We certainly shouldn't do anything like that in Emacs.
>
> The doc string of describe-font clearly says that the font must be one
> which Emacs already loaded, so completing on all the _installed_ fonts
> is definitely not TRT.
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?
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.
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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 [this message]
2019-11-02 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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