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23.0.60; (with-ns) completion of font names does not work

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "B. Smith-Mannschott" <benpsm <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; (with-ns) completion of font names does not work
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:13:28 +0100

Observed Behavior
=================

1. M-x set-frame-font

   Prompts for a font name, but offers no completions.
   (Is the user meant to guess?)

2. M-x set-face-font

   Prompts for a font name, but offers only the following three values
   as possible completions:

      -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default
      -apple-Monaco-medium-normal-normal-Regular-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- 
startup
      -ns-*-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard

Expected Behavior
=================

I would expect a complete list of the fonts current installed on the
system to be offered for completion.  This is the behavior on Windows
and Linux as well as (Carbon)Emacs 22.

Note
====

It's not that font selection is completely broken. e.g. Choosing a
font from the font panel presented after selecting "Options >> Set
Defalt Font..." does work after a fashion: it sets the default font
for all windows of the currently focused frame. (Not, however, those
of other frames.)

Also, the following elisp code, will work:

  (set-face-attribute 'default nil
                      :background "#ffffff"
                      :foundry "apple"
                      :family "consolas"
                      :foreground "#000000"
                      :height 120
                      :slant 'normal
                      :weight 'normal
                      :width 'semi-condensed))

See Also
========

The thread beginning with this message:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2009-01/msg00046.html

Configuration
=============

- gcc --version | head -n 1
  i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, NS apple-appkit-949.43)
 of 2009-01-06 on Meheadable.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

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: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  openwith-mode: t
  yas/minor-mode: t
  global-hl-line-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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C-g C-e C-x C-s C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p
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SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC ; ; SPC
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Message #12 received at 1802 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: 1802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Benjamin Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; (with-ns) completion of font names does not work
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:42:39 +0200

I get the message 'Invalid font name: "*"' in the minibuffer when I  
try this.  Some investigation seems to show this is generated in  
font.c before any NS-specific code is called.  Can you try this in an  
X build of the same source and report whether it occurs there too?

Message #15 received at 1802 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Subject: Re: bug#1802: 23.0.60; (with-ns) completion of font names does not work
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:01:48 -0500

Adrian Robert wrote:

> I get the message 'Invalid font name: "*"' in the minibuffer when I  
> try this.  Some investigation seems to show this is generated in  
> font.c before any NS-specific code is called.  Can you try this in an  
> X build of the same source and report whether it occurs there too?

Indeed

(x-list-fonts "*")

as called by set-frame-font throws an error for me ("Invalid font name
*") in the current trunk on GNU/Linux.

`cvs up -D2009-01-18 font.c' and this goes away, so perhaps it is the
2009-01-19 change to font_spec_from_name?

(I don't think this is related to the original report.)

Message #20 received at 1802 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>, 1802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1802: 23.0.60; (with-ns) completion of font names does not work
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:20:03 -0500

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> (x-list-fonts "*")
>
> as called by set-frame-font throws an error for me ("Invalid font name
> *") in the current trunk on GNU/Linux.

Should be fixed now.

Message #25 received at 1802-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 1802-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: (with-ns) completion of font names does not work
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:36:24 -0400

AFAIK the source of the problem has been fixed.  It works under
GNU/Linux, so I'll assume it also works for the NS port.  If not, please
re-open this bug or make a new one.


        Stefan

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