From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23, Debian and the "fixed" font Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:07:23 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87bp219jcf.fsf@rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298612479 6198 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2011 05:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 25 06:41:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PsqQU-00021a-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:41:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46472 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PsqQU-0000cT-7u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:41:14 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="y54ldFr5N8l153uWsQTCVQ"; logging-data="4759"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18is677SSj0R9uy6O5Zq9om" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fLw06ZEp7vJIdKtEyqE0/GDO2Vo= sha1:/qWEbSIATaawz7vb0LYnDLwRprM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185306 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79462 Archived-At: > And "fixed" /is/ real in the sense that it's the same, pixel by pixel, > on every system I've used for the last 20 years. (Except that time > when they changed the shape of ' in some ancient X11 release.) Eerily familar. > Thanks! But I'm one of those users who dislike changes, except those > we ask for. I don't personally want more font control in Emacs -- I > just want 'fixed'. I suspect that you'll have to specify the full font name rather than the alias. It's probably at least a misfeature, of not a bug, so you might want to M-x report-emacs-bug about it. > I was thinking about 22, but the Debian people seem to have jumped > straight from 21 to 23 because of some perceived problem with Emacs 22 > and Unicode. No, it's just that Emacs-22 came out too late for Debian-5.0, and Emacs-23 came out early enough for Debian-6.0. Nothing more to it. Stefan