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emacs-25 mishandles info code text on Fedora 23

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Message #42 received at 22207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 22207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22207: emacs-25 mishandles info code text on Fedora 23
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 21:21:32 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu,  22207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:16:19 -0500
> 
> Actually I see Emacs has a font called fixed-width that does exactly that.
> So my simple suggestion for fixing this issue:
> 
>   Info-quoted and tex-verbatim face should inherit from fixed-width by default.
> 
> (The fact that that specification of fixed-width doesn't appear to work
> on either Debian or Red Hat seems a separate issue! Ie, it gives a face
> that looks exactly like the default face.

Probably because the default font is a fixed-pitch font, no?  IOW,
wouldn't this be a no-op on all platforms?

> "Sans Mono" works for me.

Where "works" means what?

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