GNU bug report logs - #17006
*GNU Emacs* does not change font

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From: David Englund <public <at> beloved.name>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:28:49 +0100

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All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as this 
is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart Emacs. 
Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test 
fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the 
font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is 
not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected font.

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Message #8 received at 17006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: David Englund <public <at> beloved.name>
Cc: 17006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:59:01 +0200

> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:28:49 +0100
> From: David Englund <public <at> beloved.name>
> 
> All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as this 
> is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart Emacs. 
> Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test 
> fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the 
> font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is 
> not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected font.

Took me some time to understand what is this about.  You are
complaining that the splash screen uses fonts different from any other
buffer, is that right?

Message #11 received at 17006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: David Englund <public <at> beloved.name>,  17006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#17006: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:04:29 -0400

>> All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as this 
>> is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart Emacs. 
>> Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test 
>> fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the 
>> font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is 
>> not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected font.

I'm not sure I buy this argument.
IME, splash screens normally look different to how an application
"normally" looks, and I don't expect to be able to customize a splash
screen.
I think it far more likely that people will visit a file to see how the
fonts look.
But I have no evidence (but I assume you don't either).

Having said that, it's not obvious to me that the fancy splash screen
really _needs_ to use variable-pitch face (if that it is what this
report is actually about).

Message #14 received at 17006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: David Englund <public <at> beloved.name>
Cc: 17006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: *GNU Emacs* does not change font
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:44:44 +0100

David Englund <public <at> beloved.name> writes:

> All buffers except *GNU Emacs* change font. This is missleading as
> this is the first visible buffer, the one you see when you restart
> Emacs. Emacs are often restarted by newbies in order for them to test
> fontifying Lisp in their .emacs. As a result they will think that the
> font are not installed or similar and will only discover that this is
> not the case only if they see another buffer that show the expected
> font.

I think the conclusion here is that Emacs works as designed in this
respect, and I'm closing this bug report.

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