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

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From: "B. Smith-Mannschott" <benpsm <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1802: 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

Recent input:
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
f o n t SPC c o n t r o l SPC C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d C-d
C-d C-d C-d C-d <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
s e l e c t i o n SPC <escape> q C-n C-n C-b C-b C-b
C-b C-f C-n C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-a
C-k C-p C-p C-y C-o C-n C-n C-n C-k C-SPC C-n C-n C-n
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
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n SPC SPC SPC
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC ; ; SPC
s o m e SPC o f SPC t h e s e SPC C-n SPC SPC SPC SPC
SPC ; ; SPC p r o p e r t i e s SPC m a y C-n SPC SPC
SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC ; ; SPC n o t SPC b
e SPC n e c e s s a r y C-p C-p C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b
C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b
C-b C-b C-b C-a C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f
C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f
C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f
C-f C-b C-b C-k C-n C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f C-f
C-f C-k C-n C-k C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-k C-x C-s <switch-frame>
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
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