Subject: bug#19889:

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 16:08:44 -0400

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Please try the attached patch against Emacs 25. It attempts to
> implement Stefan's suggestions in Bug#19889, and this improved things
> for me on Fedora 23, when I ran 'emacs -Q'.

Thanks, but it makes no difference for me on RHEL7.
Emacs still uses the same poor non-xft font:

 x:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1 

(The addition of fixed-pitch-serif as a base face is of course desirable.)