default-frame-alist apparently overriding font from minibuffer-frame-alist

[Glen Whitney]

> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the  
precise symptoms of the bug:

Dear Emacs maintainers and/or Mr. Zenitani,

Here is the entire contents of my .emacs file:

(setq minibuffer-frame-alist
      '((font . "-apple-arial-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-mac- 
roman"))
      )
(setq default-frame-alist
      '((minibuffer)
;;; BUG: 22.0.50.1 Carbon Emacs Package 20060617 following line
;;;      overrides value in minibuffer-frame-alist
        (font . "-apple-courier-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-mac-roman")
        )
      )

If I start up emacs reading this .emacs file, it creates a separate  
main frame and minibuffer frame, as expected, but the font in *both*  
windows is courier.  I believe that is a bug, as the Emacs internal  
documentation on the variable "minibuffer-frame-alist" explicitly  
states that:

Parameters specified here supersede the values given in
`default-frame-alist', for a minibuffer frame.

Note that I need not take any action in the emacs after it starts up  
to observe the issue, as there is a remaining log message in the  
minibuffer, so the font it's using is directly observable.

If on the other hand, I comment out the line with containing  
"courier"  in the .emacs file and restart emacs, the minibuffer comes  
up with the arial font, as expected, and the main frame comes up with  
some system default font.  I can fix that first window with initial- 
frame-alist without disturbing the minibuffer, but then subsequent  
frames I create have the ugly system font.

I am using the latest test build of the Carbon Emacs package, based  
on Gnu Emacs 22.0.50 CVS dated 20060607, available on the web at  
http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html

I also observed the bug in exactly the same way on the version of  
Emacs available via the "Fink" system on Mac OS X as of a few weeks ago.

My apologies if this is a repeat posting of the bug, but I could not  
find any way to search open pretest bug reports.

        Sincerely yours,
             Glen Whitney

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In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0)
of 2006-06-16 on mini.local
X server distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.4.6
configured using `configure '--prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app/ 
Contents/Resources' '--with-carbon' '--without-x' '--libexecdir=/ 
Volumes/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' 'CFLAGS=-arch i386 - 
arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -DUSE_ATSUI - 
DUSE_MAC_TSM''

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: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

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

Recent input:
C-h p C-x 0 C-h C-h C-s b u g <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> C-h C-h C-s C-h C-h <down> C-x b * h e
SPC <backspace> <backspace> H <tab> <return> C-s b
u g C-s <down> C-h i C-s e m a C-s <down> C-s C-s <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> C-a <right>
<right> <right> m <return> C-s b u g C-s <left> m <help-echo>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-2> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-2> <switch-frame> C-g M-x r e p o r t - e m
a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
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