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BUGFIX: window-default-font-height: check for nil string

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum <at> gmx.com>, 48408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48408: BUGFIX: window-default-font-height: check for nil
 string
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 09:09:38 +0200

> In package windows.el, function `window-default-font-height' calls
> function `face-font', which can return a nil value, but performs a
> `string-equal' operation on the output without checking for that
> possibiliy.

Please report this to the author(s) of that package.

> I came across this in an unusual case, of having an 'emacs -nw' server
> an 'emacsclient -nw', and opening a GUI emacsclient to connect to it.
>  From that point forward until the fix, every *second* attempt to use the
> minibuffer on the 'emacsclient -nw' would fail.
>
> The fix I'm using is:
>
>      (if (and (display-multi-font-p (frame-parameter frame 'display))
>               (stringp default-font)  ; <<<---!!!

What is `default-font'?

> 	     (not (string-equal (frame-parameter frame 'font) default-font)))
>
> But there could be other considerations to performing things in another way.

martin

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