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bug#52905: 29.0.50; "fixed-pitch" face doesn't respect the font in "defa
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#52905: 29.0.50; "fixed-pitch" face doesn't respect the font in "default-frame-alist" |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Jan 2022 22:28:34 +0200 |
> From: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
> Cc: 52905@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2022 11:07:50 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Is using the default-frame-alist to set the default font still our
> >> recommended best practice? Is that what you do?
> >
> > Yes and yes. It's just that you seem to interpret "the default font"
> > differently from what it was supposed to mean. It means the font of
> > the default face. Any face that doesn't specify a font or some font
> > attribute will use the same font, but faces that do specify those
> > attributes can (and usually do) select other fonts. To affect the
> > font of the faces which specify font attributes, you need to customize
> > those faces separately from the default face and default-frame-alist.
>
> Hi. Let's talk about this part first. Clearly the manual says what you
> describe, and I clearly see how it came to be this way. It makes perfect
> sense from the viewpoint of the dev that wrote the logic and the docs.
>
> As a user, this doesn't feel right to me, though. Can we talk about
> that? Then we can agree on what, if anything, needs fixing.
>
> Do you use org? Are you seeing a different fonts in the body of the
> document compared to the #+begin_... lines? If so, does this bug you?
> The org devs said
>
> #+begin_... lines should be rendered with the fixed-pitch face font
>
> I suspect that what they MEANT was
>
> #+begin_... lines should be rendered with a fixed pitch font
No, I think they meant what they said.
> I suspect this because that's what I would have meant if I wrote it. IF
> this is what was intended and IF the default font had a fixed pitch,
> then I think it makes sense for emacs to use the default font here.
>
> If you're seeing the two different fonts, and you think that's fine,
> then I'll just fix this in my .emacs, and we can be done.
Yes, I think it is fine to see 2 different fonts in this case. Once
again, the reason is that the fixed-pitch face specifies its own font.