Re: [h-e-w] Emacs gets font wrong at start up

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > > But emacs does the font if I manually select it from the Set Font
> > > menu as described above.
> > 
> > Yes, it does.  But that only makes it the default font for the text
> > in the buffer in which you choose it.  Using that as the default for
> > the entire frame, not just for buffer text, is something that requires a
> > higher-quality font.
> 
> I didn't know that.

You didn't know what exactly?

> Why does a frame need a better (default) font than a buffer?
> Just what does a frame require in this regard?

The bold variant, for starters, because we show the buffer name in
bold on the mode line.