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*GNU Emacs* does not change font

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: David Englund <public <at> beloved.name>
Cc: 17006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:44:44 +0100

David Englund <public <at> beloved.name> writes:

> All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as
> this is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart
> Emacs. Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test
> fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the
> font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is
> not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected
> font.

I think the conclusion here is that Emacs works as designed in this
respect, and I'm closing this bug report.

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