Re: Font not defined

[Robert J. Chassell]

[An instance started with

    EMACS_FONT_LOG=1 /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -q \
    -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1'

[I said that the splash screen shows

    xft:-bitstream-Bitstream Vera 
Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x51)

[and Handa-san replied]

    ??? What's wrong with it?  If you specify a font of
    20-pixelsize, the font for variable-pitch should be
    20-pixelsize too.

I thought that specifying a fixed width font as a command line argument
would lead to fixed width through out.  It doesn't.  No matter; I hardly
ever look at the splash screen anyhow.  To my eyes, with a
variable-pitch font on my screen, it looks perfectly well.

    > However, evaluating  (find-file "~/.emacs-simple")  shows
    >     x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1 (#x72)

    For a character of which buffer is it shown?  And, do you
    mean that it should be something else?

For ~/.emacs-simple.  The font is correct.

Indeed, I am using
today's GNU Emacs CVS, Mon, 2008 Jul 14  10:20 UTC
GNU Emacs 23.0.60.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.10)
as I said before, but with a more complex .emacs file, with 28 buffers,
and all is well.  I am sending you this email from that instance.

Thank you again.

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