bug#13284: 24.3.50; when launched with -Q the frame is as wide as the scrollbar

bug#13284: 24.3.50; when launched with -Q the frame is as wide as the scrollbar

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

This behaviour seems to be related to the default font used, Lucida  
Sans Typewriter from Java. When I launch GNU Emacs as

	nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q -fn "FreeMono"

the frame opens OK with 80 column or such. (The same behaviour is  
also shown by GNU Emacs 24.2.50. The released GNU Emacs 24.2 does not  
show this behaviour, but it claims:

	*** Warning: font in family 'LucidaSans-Typewriter' not found [644  
times]
	Error during redisplay: (error "Variable binding depth exceeds max- 
specpdl-size")
	select-frame: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
	*** Warning: font in family 'LucidaSans-Typewriter' not found
)

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, NS apple- 
appkit-824.48)
  of 2012-12-27 on
Bzr revision: 111341  
michael.albinus@gmx.de-20121226162218-5u40mxjdtankym19
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.824
Configured using:
  `configure '--without-pop' '--without-sound' '--with-ns'
  '--disable-ns-self-contained' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib'
  '--x-includes=/usr/X11/include'
  '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
  Support/Emacs/calendar24:/Library/Application Support/Emacs'  
'CFLAGS=-g
  -ggdb3 -H -pipe -fPIC -fno-common -O0 -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -maltivec
  -faltivec -mabi=altivec -malign-natural' 'CC=gcc-apple-4.2'
  'CXX=g++-apple-4.2' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include' 'LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib -v
  -Wl,-v -Wl,-bind_at_load -Wl,-t'
  'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/X11/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig''

Important settings:
   value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
   default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   buffer-read-only: t
   column-number-mode: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t


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bug#13284: 24.3.50; when launched with -Q the frame is as wide as the scrollbar

[Alan Third]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE> writes:

> This behaviour seems to be related to the default font used, Lucida
> Sans Typewriter from Java. When I launch GNU Emacs as
>
> 	nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q -fn "FreeMono"
>
> the frame opens OK with 80 column or such. (The same behaviour is also
> shown by GNU Emacs 24.2.50. The released GNU Emacs 24.2 does not show
> this behaviour, but it claims:
>
> 	*** Warning: font in family 'LucidaSans-Typewriter' not found
> [644 times]
> 	Error during redisplay: (error "Variable binding depth exceeds
> max- 
> specpdl-size")
> 	select-frame: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
> 	*** Warning: font in family 'LucidaSans-Typewriter' not found
> )

Hi, sorry nobody's got back to you about this before now. Are you still
experiencing this behaviour? I don't have LucidaSans-Typewriter, but I
can't find a font that causes this fault in Emacs 25. (To be fair, I
didn't try every font on my system, so it was hardly an exhaustive
test.)
-- 
Alan Third

bug#13284: 24.3.50; when launched with -Q the frame is as wide as the scrollbar

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 31.05.2016 um 22:31 schrieb Alan Third:

> Are you still
> experiencing this behaviour? I don't have LucidaSans-Typewriter, but I
> can't find a font that causes this fault in Emacs 25.

Hello!

Which GNU Emacs 25 I do not experience this effect.

LucidaSans-Typewriter was contained in Java Runtimes years ago.

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  Pete

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bug#13284: 24.3.50; when launched with -Q the frame is as wide as the scrollbar

[Alan Third]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 31.05.2016 um 22:31 schrieb Alan Third:
> 
> > Are you still
> > experiencing this behaviour? I don't have LucidaSans-Typewriter, but I
> > can't find a font that causes this fault in Emacs 25.
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Which GNU Emacs 25 I do not experience this effect.
> 
> LucidaSans-Typewriter was contained in Java Runtimes years ago.

Thanks. I'll close this bug report for now. Feel free to re-open if
the issue comes back.
-- 
Alan Third