Re: recent emacs font problems?

[Jan D.]

> Here is what RMS said about the exact same fix some days ago; please
> read the previous articles in this thread for a discussion on this
> subject:
>
> RMS> That is not correct.  It would bring back a bug I fixed recently. 
>  I
> RMS> think it was the following bug.
>
>
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:59:01 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Klaus Straubinger <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
>
> If the font family of the default face is changed with
> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "fixed")
> then this does not change the face's font for subsequent frames, as can
> be seen with the evaluation of (face-font 'default) in the first frame
> and in a second, created with C-x 5 2, respectively.

Thank you.  However, I still can't understand how things are supposed to
work.  In my .Xdefaults I set default font to courier-14.  Now if I
do (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "fixed"), shall new frames
get courier-14 or fixed-14?  Currently they get fixed-14 but with the
font metrics of courier-14, so the frame is not 80 characters wide, but
more like 87 characters.

If I select courier 12 from the shift-down-1 menu, shall I get 
courier-12
or fixed-12?  Currently I get fixed-12 (with courier-12 font metrics).

        Jan D.