Re: Native line numbers, final testing

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:53:17 -0600
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Alex <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: James Cloos <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> >> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:58:21 -0600
> >> 
> >> >  (defface line-number
> >> > -  '((t :inherit (shadow default)))
> >> > +  '((t :inherit (shadow default) :family "Monospace Serif"))
> >> >    "Face for displaying line numbers.
> >> >  This face is used when `display-line-numbers' is non-nil.
> >> >  
> >> 
> >> This gives me a smaller line numbers by default, since I apparently have
> >> not configured an appropriate serif font (my default font is DejaVu Sans
> >> Mono).
> >
> > You can always customize the face.
> 
> Yes, but the default should be sensible. At least on the systems I use,
> in emacs -Q, "Monospace" matches up with my default font.

It should be sensible, I agree.  But "sensible" doesn't necessarily
mean identical to the default face's font.

> Is there a good reason why the fixed-pitch* faces don't inherit from
> default?

How are fixed-pitch* different from any other face that doesn't
inherit from default?