Re: address@hidden: No default for describe-font, but one is advertised]

[Kevin Rodgers]

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.

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> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> To: "Emacs-Pretest-Bug" <address@hidden>
> 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:
> <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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Kevin Rodgers
Sr. Software Engineer, IHS