* [drew.adams@oracle.com: No default for describe-font, but one is advertised]
@ 2006-07-24 14:42 Richard Stallman
2006-07-24 16:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2006-07-24 14:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
Would someone please DTRT and ack?
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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Emacs-Pretest-Bug" <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:14:24 -0700
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Subject: No default for describe-font, but one is advertised
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emacs -Q
M-x describe-font RET
You get this prompt: "Fontname (default current choice for ASCII chars): "
However, hitting RET gives this error message: "No matching font"
The prompt tells you (me at least) that there is a default value, but
hitting RET tells you that there is no default value.
Also, shouldn't that be "Font name", not "Fontname"?
In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
of 2006-07-19 on BOS-CTHEWLAP2
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: ENU
locale-coding-system: cp1252
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Help
Minor modes in effect:
encoded-kbd-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
view-mode: t
Recent input:
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<mouse-1> C-x 1 <help-echo> <wheel-down> <wheel-down>
<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> C-h f d e s
c r b <backspace> i b e - <tab> SPC SPC SPC <tab> <tab>
C-g C-g M-x d e s r <backspace> c r i b e - f o n t
<return> <tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<return> M-x d e c r i b e - f o n t <return> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
<left> s <return> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>
Recent messages:
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* Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: No default for describe-font, but one is advertised]
2006-07-24 14:42 [drew.adams@oracle.com: No default for describe-font, but one is advertised] Richard Stallman
@ 2006-07-24 16:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-07-25 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2006-07-24 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Richard Stallman wrote:
> Would someone please DTRT and ack?
The error message is "No matching font", but it is reported because
font-info returned nil, so "No info about FONTNAME" would be more
accurate. But how can font-info return nil for the default font of
the selected frame? Emacs is already displaying text in that font!
FYI, the default font name is determined by
(cdr (assq 'font (frame-parameters)))
and then refined by fontset-info if fontset-query returns non-nil.
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "Emacs-Pretest-Bug" <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:14:24 -0700
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Subject: No default for describe-font, but one is advertised
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=failed
> version=3.0.4
>
> emacs -Q
>
> M-x describe-font RET
>
> You get this prompt: "Fontname (default current choice for ASCII chars): "
>
> However, hitting RET gives this error message: "No matching font"
>
> The prompt tells you (me at least) that there is a default value, but
> hitting RET tells you that there is no default value.
>
> Also, shouldn't that be "Font name", not "Fontname"?
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
> of 2006-07-19 on BOS-CTHEWLAP2
> X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
>
> Important settings:
> value of $LC_ALL: nil
> value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
> value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
> value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
> value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
> value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
> value of $LC_TIME: nil
> value of $LANG: ENU
> locale-coding-system: cp1252
> default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Help
>
> Minor modes in effect:
> encoded-kbd-mode: t
> tooltip-mode: t
> tool-bar-mode: t
> mouse-wheel-mode: t
> menu-bar-mode: t
> file-name-shadow-mode: t
> global-font-lock-mode: t
> font-lock-mode: t
> blink-cursor-mode: t
> unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
> utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
> auto-compression-mode: t
> line-number-mode: t
> view-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-h C-h <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
> <mouse-1> C-x 1 <help-echo> <wheel-down> <wheel-down>
> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> C-h f d e s
> c r b <backspace> i b e - <tab> SPC SPC SPC <tab> <tab>
> C-g C-g M-x d e s r <backspace> c r i b e - f o n t
> <return> <tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
> <return> M-x d e c r i b e - f o n t <return> <left>
> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
> <left> s <return> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo>
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>
>
> Recent messages:
> Loading regexp-opt...done
> Loading dired...done
> Loading help-mode...done
> Loading help-fns...done
> Making completion list... [5 times]
> Quit [2 times]
> Loading mule-diag...done
> call-interactively: Text is read-only
> No matching font [2 times]
> Loading emacsbug...done
>
>
>
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> ------- End of forwarded message -------
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Kevin Rodgers
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* Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: No default for describe-font, but one is advertised]
2006-07-24 16:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
@ 2006-07-25 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2006-07-25 3:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
The error message is "No matching font", but it is reported because
font-info returned nil, so "No info about FONTNAME" would be more
accurate. But how can font-info return nil for the default font of
the selected frame? Emacs is already displaying text in that font!
It looks like a bug to me. But note that neither describe-font nor
font-info is documented properly. It is not clear to me what
sort of argument is really supposed to be meaningful for font-info.
Perhaps this was not clear to the person who wrote describe-font.
I asked Handa to help here.
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