GNU bug report logs - #43480
27.1; Default font size not saving on Mac

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Germain Le Chapelain <germain <at> arista.com>

Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:06:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 2845, 2891, 4295, 22939, 23366

Found in versions 25.0.92, 25.0.93, 27.1

Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Germain Le Chapelain <germain <at> arista.com>
Cc: 43480 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43480: 27.1; Default font size not saving on Mac
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:02:01 +0300
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:02:30 -0700
> From: Germain Le Chapelain via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> So, the default font options don't save across session on MacOS.
> 
> What I did is:
> 
> o clicked `Option > Set Default Font...'
> o Reduce the font size (from 12 to 11)
> o Closed the window
> o Clicked `Option > Save Options'
> 
> Quit Emacs
> Restart Emacs
> 
> I was seeing size 12 font again (and would see 12 selected in going back
> to Options > Set Default Font')
> 
> I would have expected to see the font at the same size as saved in the
> previous session.

See bug#40796, maybe it will give some hints (although that bug was
not on macOS).

Basically, some of your customizations likely causes the manual
setting of the font size to be overwritten.




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