bug#1868: Default fontset not discussed in documentation

bug#1868: Default fontset not discussed in documentation

[Juanma Barranquero]

Package: emacs,documentation
Version: 23.0.60
Severity: minor

(emacs)Fonsets describes the "startup fontset" (fontset-startup) and
the "standard fontset" (fontset-standard), but it does not mention the
"default fontset" (fontset-default).

(elisp)Fonsets mentions the default fontset in the description of
`set-fontset-font', with:

     If NAME is `nil', this function modifies the default fontset,
     whose short name is `fontset-default'.

However, what is the default fontset, its uses, or how does it relates
to fontset-startup and fontset-standard, are never discussed anywhere.

bug#1868: marked as done (Default fontset not discussed in documentation)

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From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Emacs Bug Tracker" <submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
Subject: Default fontset not discussed in documentation
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:46:33 +0100
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0901120246w79d173f5w6407a7e44d6837e2@mail.gmail.com>

Package: emacs,documentation
Version: 23.0.60
Severity: minor

(emacs)Fonsets describes the "startup fontset" (fontset-startup) and
the "standard fontset" (fontset-standard), but it does not mention the
"default fontset" (fontset-default).

(elisp)Fonsets mentions the default fontset in the description of
`set-fontset-font', with:

     If NAME is `nil', this function modifies the default fontset,
     whose short name is `fontset-default'.

However, what is the default fontset, its uses, or how does it relates
to fontset-startup and fontset-standard, are never discussed anywhere.



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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, 1868-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#1868: Default fontset not discussed in documentation
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:53:12 +0800
Message-ID: <49A3FBC8.3020302@f2s.com>

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> Package: emacs,documentation
> Version: 23.0.60
> Severity: minor
>
> (emacs)Fonsets describes the "startup fontset" (fontset-startup) and
> the "standard fontset" (fontset-standard), but it does not mention the
> "default fontset" (fontset-default).
>   

I've added a description of the default fontset to this section, and 
modified the descriptions of the other two based on how I observe them 
working in Emacs 23, including the fact that fontset-startup seems to be 
defined even if you don't specify a startup font explicitly, and both 
fontsets fall back on fontset-default for characters that are not 
covered by their respective definitions.