Re: font problem from emacs 23.3 to 23.4???

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 28.07.2012 um 04:35 schrieb rusi:

> However much else is 'upgraded.'  And broken -- xft? xfce? xserver?
> some specific fonts?
> Dont know how to search...

Nothing is broken, GNU Emacs just makes progress – and changes a bit its behaviour from release to release. And it seems to change its behaviour even inside a session. The same "exotic" character can be taken from font A the first time and from font B the second time because in-between GNU Emacs performed some garbage collection and cleared the cache partially. It's also possible that the first time I used a text size A and the second time a text size B so that GNU Emacs had to create two different ad-hoc fontsets.

> 
> So I thought: Let me mount old OS in new and try running the mounted
> emacs23.3.
> This way I can check whether the emacs 23.3 -> 23.4 is broken or
> something else.
> 
> However I get:
> 
> $ /mnt/p/usr/bin/emacs23
> Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/usr/lib/emacs/23.3/i486-linux-gnu/)
> does not exist.

Isn't /usr/lib/emacs/23.3 now /mnt/p/usr/lib/emacs/23.3? So a sym-link /usr/lib/emacs/23.3 should be created pointing to /mnt/p/usr/lib/emacs/23.3.

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  Pete

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