[debbugs-tracker] bug#21303: closed (25.0.50; incorrect doc string for `menu-set-font')

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> 25.0.50; incorrect doc string for `menu-set-font'
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> Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> `C-h k' and choose `Set Default Font' from menu-bar menu `Options'.
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> The doc string says "Interactively select a font and make it the default
> on all existing frames."
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> This is wrong.  The most important thing this command does is set the
> font as the default for all FUTURE frames.  The doc string gives the
> impression that it sets the default font only for the EXISTING frames.
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> Perhaps someone misread the doc string of `set-frame-font' when writing
> the doc string of `menu-set-font', seeing only that arg FRAMES = t means
> "all existing graphical frames".
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> The most important part of the behavior (and the doc string) of
> `set-frame-font' is that a non-nil FRAME arg "alter[s] the user's
> Customization settings as though the font-related attributes of the
> `default' face had been "set in this session", so that the font is
> applied to future frames."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> Users of `menu-set-font' should have this info, above all.
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> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2015-07-31 on LEG570
> Bzr revision: 8d332aeccab2208e6c6bd434738565e6abf12043
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
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>  `configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs'
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> > Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
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> > `C-h k' and choose `Set Default Font' from menu-bar menu `Options'.
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> > The doc string says "Interactively select a font and make it the default
> > on all existing frames."
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> > This is wrong.  The most important thing this command does is set the
> > font as the default for all FUTURE frames.  The doc string gives the
> > impression that it sets the default font only for the EXISTING frames.
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> Thanks, fixed.
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