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emacs-25 mishandles info code text on Fedora 23

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Message #69 received at 22207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 22207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22207: emacs-25 mishandles info code text on Fedora 23
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:53:30 +0200

> Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 22207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:29:07 -0800
> 
> On 12/21/2015 08:18 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > In "emacs -Q", evaluate this in*scratch*  (before loading Info):
> >
> >    (defface Info-quoted
> >      '((t :family "Monospace"))
> >      "Face used for quoted elements.")
> >
> > then type "C-u C-h i" to read some manual where you previously didn't
> > like how code text looks, and see if it now looks better.
> 
> It looks different, but still not good. Now, the code text looks exactly 
> like the non-code text, which is less informative. I'm attaching a 
> screenshot of the same text as before.

But if your default font is already monospaced, what would you expect
from Info-quoted face to produce?  I thought the result which you
describe is exactly what was wanted in this case.  IIRC, we had that
before the change that introduced this face.

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