Re: 23.0.60; new frames ignore set-default-font

[Tim Van Holder]

Jason Rumney wrote:
>
> Jim Hunziker wrote:
> >  I am using the Xft font backend and Emacs from CVS.  I am using the
> >  Andale Mono-13 font from msttcorefonts.
> >
> >  When using the setting (set-default-font "Andale Mono-13") in my
> >  .emacs file, new frames created with M-x 5 2 don't use the default
> >  font. (The initial frame does use the font.)
>
> I think this is by design. set-default-font is an alias for set-frame-font, 
> and it only sets the default font for the current frame.
> To set the font for future frames, you need to set the font frame-parameter 
> in default-frame-alist.

As I reported on March 7th
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00675.html),
this also affects cases where the default face has been customized (at
least it does for me); and as I understand it, the default face is
supposed to apply to new frames too.

100% reproduction for me with:

$ emacs -Q
M-x customize-face default
-> font-family starts out set to 'adobe-courier'
-> change it to 'terminus' (or some other font, like 'fixed')
-> set for current session (frame repaints with the new font)
M-x make-frame
-> get new frame, with adobe-courier
-> a fresh M-x customize-face default shows the font and size as
adobe-courier/116 (NOT the customized values), but the state as "SET
for current session"
-> Changing the font & size again (or "Reset to saved" for a non -Q
run of emacs) repaints all frames with the correct customized font,
but every subsequent make-frame keeps creating one with courier

This is with a freshly built emacs from CVS (regular rebuild, not full
bootstrap).