Re: font-related hanging / general brokenness

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Hmm... I don't see that.  I have "Emacs.font: fixed" in "xrdb -query"
> and a .emacs that contains just (custom-set-faces '(default ((t :font
> "Sans")))), and the first frame along with all subsequent ones uses
> "Sans".
>
> Can you try and come up with a more precise recipe?

Hmm I tried to make a more precise test case.

I used the following /tmp/.emacs files (differing only in the :family of
the `default' face):

  A)
     (custom-set-faces
      '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "white" :foreground "black" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 120 :width normal :foundry "unknown" :family "DejaVu Sans Mono")))))

  B)
     (custom-set-faces
      '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "white" :foreground "black" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 120 :width normal :foundry "unknown" :family "Monospace")))))

and the following test cases:

  1)
      xrdb -remove
      LANG=C HOME=/tmp \emacs &

  2)
      xrdb -remove
      echo 'Emacs*Font: Dejavu Sans Mono-8' | xrdb
      LANG=C HOME=/tmp \emacs &

I've used the following abbreviations for fonts.  [The font-specs are
what's output by `C-u C-x =').  Note that "11" below corresponds to the
"8" in Dejavu Sans Mono-8", and "16" below corresponds to ":height 120"
in the custom settings, according to whatever weird relationship there
is between specified and actual point sizes.]

   DjMo16 = -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso8859-1
   DjMo11 = -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-11-*-*-*-m-0-iso8859-1
   BvMo16 = -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso8859-1
   BvSa16 = -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1
   BvSa11 = -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1
   UnMo16 = -urw-nimbus mono l-regular-r-normal--16-116-100-100-p-100-iso8859-1

Here are the resulting faces; I've appended a "*" to things I think are wrong:

				A1	A2	B1	B2
   ----------------------------------------------------------------
   initial `default'		DjMo16	DjMo16	BvMo16	BvMo16
   initial `variable-pitch'	BvSa16	BvSa16	BvSa16	BvSa16
   C-x 5 2 `default'		DjMo16	DjMo16	UnMo16*	DjMo11*
   C-x 5 2 `variable-pitch'	BvSa16	BvSa11*	BvSa16	BvSa11*

The "UnMo16" result seems particular bizarre...

-Miles

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