GNU bug report logs - #21303
25.0.50; incorrect doc string for `menu-set-font'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:09:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 21303-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 21303-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21303: 25.0.50; incorrect doc string for `menu-set-font'
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:34:23 +0300

> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> `C-h k' and choose `Set Default Font' from menu-bar menu `Options'.
> 
> The doc string says "Interactively select a font and make it the default
> on all existing frames."
> 
> This is wrong.  The most important thing this command does is set the
> font as the default for all FUTURE frames.  The doc string gives the
> impression that it sets the default font only for the EXISTING frames.

Thanks, fixed.
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