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25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 23831 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:09:56 +0100

dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:

> Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm calling from "emacs -Q" the info system with `C-h i' and any
>>>> character in Info between quotes are just displayed with a rectangular
>>>> box.  I'm compiling Emacs on an elderly RHEL at work.  What can I do to
>>>> enable Emacs to display the info files in a readable way?
>>>
>>> I think you want to customize the variable 'text-quoting-style'.
>>
>> That doesn't make any difference to this issue.
>
> That is true.
>
> What I found strange is though that it also didn't change the actual
> quoting characters in my *info* buffer, do I have to restart Emacs for
> t-q-s to take effect?
>
>> This does:
>> (eval-after-load "info" '(copy-face 'default 'Info-quoted))
>
> That is also true. :-)
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>        Dieter
>
>>
>> One final try to repeat my comments from bug#19889 and 22207:
>>
>>
>> Viewing Info files is an important part of Emacs. I think it is a
>> mistake to break the rendering of them in this way, even if it's only on
>> a small fraction of systems, for the sake of a very minor (and IMO
>> arguable; cf http://debbugs.gnu.org/19889#115: "an ugly font") cosmetic
>> improvement on the rest.
>>
>> Please make Info-quoted face inherit from either default or
>> font-lock-string (on emacs-25, the situation is somewhat better on
>> master).
>>

It seems like the OP has found the fix for his problem, but is there
anything more to do here?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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