Re: `set-frame-font' doesn't support font aliases

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eduardo Ochs <address@hidden> writes:

> The current code for `set-frame-font' doesn't support font
> aliases - for example, these sexps don't work:

>   (set-frame-font "5x7")    ;; error: "Font `5x7' is not defined"
>   (set-frame-font "fixed")  ;; uses some unexpected font

I've just installed a fix to check also an alias name in X
font-backend.  But, as Emacs accepts a fontconfig-style font
name too, for instance, "fixed" is parsed as a font of
family "fixed" which may match with many fonts.

Is keeping backward compatibility of (set-frame-font
"fixed") important enough to drop the support of
fontconfig-style name?

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Kenichi Handa
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