Subject: bug#57962: 29.0.50; Odd font choices

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:07:31 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:41:12 +0200
> 
> So -- we're using the `fixed-pitch' face for keyboard stuff because the
> `default' font may well use a proportional font.  (It's unusual, but
> feasible.)
> 
> But in the common case, where `default' uses a fixed width font, then I
> think the `fixed-pitch' face should use exactly the same font.

It depends on whether we want the fixed-pitch face to look differently
from the default face, even when the default face uses a monospaced
font.  I always thought that fixed-pitch face was supposed to look
differently.

> Is there some easy way to achieve this, by any chance?

Did you try using font-spec with (:spacing 'mono) ?