No default for describe-font, but one is advertised

[Drew Adams]

emacs -Q

M-x describe-font RET

You get this prompt: "Fontname (default current choice for ASCII chars): "

However, hitting RET gives this error message: "No matching font"

The prompt tells you (me at least) that there is a default value, but
hitting RET tells you that there is no default value.

Also, shouldn't that be "Font name", not "Fontname"?


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2006-07-19 on BOS-CTHEWLAP2
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Help

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  view-mode: t

Recent input:
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-h C-h <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> C-x 1 <help-echo> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> 
<wheel-down> <wheel-down> <wheel-down> C-h f d e s 
c r b <backspace> i b e - <tab> SPC SPC SPC <tab> <tab> 
C-g C-g M-x d e s r <backspace> c r i b e - f o n t 
<return> <tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<return> M-x d e c r i b e - f o n t <return> <left> 
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> 
<left> s <return> <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading dired...done
Loading help-mode...done
Loading help-fns...done
Making completion list... [5 times]
Quit [2 times]
Loading mule-diag...done
call-interactively: Text is read-only
No matching font [2 times]
Loading emacsbug...done