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bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6
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H. Dieter Wilhelm |
Subject: |
bug#23831: 25.0.95; face Info-quoted is not displayed on Redhat 6.6 |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:58:05 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> I'm calling from "emacs -Q" the info system with `C-h i' and any
>>> character in Info between quotes are just displayed with a rectangular
>>> box. I'm compiling Emacs on an elderly RHEL at work. What can I do to
>>> enable Emacs to display the info files in a readable way?
>>
>> I think you want to customize the variable 'text-quoting-style'.
>
> That doesn't make any difference to this issue.
That is true.
What I found strange is though that it also didn't change the actual
quoting characters in my *info* buffer, do I have to restart Emacs for
t-q-s to take effect?
> This does:
> (eval-after-load "info" '(copy-face 'default 'Info-quoted))
That is also true. :-)
Thanks a lot!
Dieter
>
> One final try to repeat my comments from bug#19889 and 22207:
>
>
> Viewing Info files is an important part of Emacs. I think it is a
> mistake to break the rendering of them in this way, even if it's only on
> a small fraction of systems, for the sake of a very minor (and IMO
> arguable; cf http://debbugs.gnu.org/19889#115: "an ugly font") cosmetic
> improvement on the rest.
>
> Please make Info-quoted face inherit from either default or
> font-lock-string (on emacs-25, the situation is somewhat better on
> master).
>
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Kelkheim, Germany
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