Subject: Re: bug#17486: 24.4.50; set-face-font problem on OSX

From: Dmitry Antipov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 18:53:24 +0400

>> 13 maj 2014 kl. 20:21 skrev Christian Lynbech <[email-masked]>:
>>
>>>
>>> There is an issue when trying to set the font of face in recent versions
>>> of emacs build for OSX.
>>>
>>> Evaluating this form works as expected:
>>>
>>>     (set-face-font 'region "-*-Menlo-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
>>>
>>> It used to be that one could also say something like this:
>>>
>>>     (set-face-font 'region  "bitstream vera sans mono-26")
>>>
>>> but when I try to do that on a newly built emacs, I get this stack
>>> trace:
>>>
>>>     Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument font [#<font-entity ns apple Menlo nil iso10646-1 medium normal normal 0 nil 100 0 nil>])
>>>       internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(region :font "bitstream vera sans mono-26" 0)
>>>       set-face-attribute(region nil :font "bitstream vera sans mono-26")
>>>       set-face-font(region "bitstream vera sans mono-26")
>>>       eval((set-face-font (quote region) "bitstream vera sans mono-26") nil)
>>>       eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>>>       eval-last-sexp(nil)
>>>       call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>>>       command-execute(eval-last-sexp)

Ugh. Is it possible to eval (frame-font-cache) immediately after you get this error?

Dmitry