Subject: Re: bug#51978: Backport regular fonts support to emacs-28

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:40:13 +0100

Jan Synáček <[email-masked]> writes:

> Please, consider "backporting" (they can be clearly cherry picked) the
> following patches from master to emacs-28:
> https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/65fd3cA84f75aee0dfebb87fa793dae57c1caf35
> https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/dae3c4e89b27fa008d029a30cf7bd02fc3fbb6e2
>
> I consider rendering Regular fonts as Medium (a.k.a Fat -- makes my
> eyes suffer) fonts a bug, therefore I'm filing this as a bug report.

Sorry, we're only fixing regressions in Emacs 28 at this point, and this
isn't a regression (Emacs has never supported these weights before).

Closing.

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