Subject: Re: bug#26605: 25.1; emacs picks unsuitable fallback fonts for monospace default font

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:50:51 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 08:50:53 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Ralf Jung <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Ideally, emacs' default configuration would be such that it prefers
> > monospace over non-monospace fonts when falling back from a monospace font.
> 
> That does sound reasonable.  Has Emacs grown such a feature in the years
> since this bug was reported?

No, I don't think so.  The fallback uses the fontsets, so defining
those to put monospaced fonts before variable-pitch ones is the way to
go.  AFAIK, there's no logic in Emacs to select fallback fonts without
using the fontsets (the default ones if the user didn't customize
them).