On Sun Nov12'23 07:04:36PM, Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr wrote:
From: Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:04:36 +0100 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: emacs is hopeless
Hi
On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 12:17:04 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote:
I reported strange things with emacs earlier, but I thought it might be something wrong with my partially configured system.
Nope, it is just plain busted. I've added this bug report:
I don't have that problem myself, using also X11.
Do you have it also running "emacs -Q" (I don't) ?
I'm using also (not with -Q of course) a legacy terminus font, declared in ~/.Xdefaults as:
*Font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 *font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
Install first the terminus-fonts-legacy-x11 RPM.
I guess I'll have to try building from the fedora 38 source rpm on fedora 39 and see if I can get a working emacs that way.
You can also try to downgrade with:
dnf --releasever=38 downgrade emacs
dnf accept this, emacs (28.3) starts properly.
Thank you for this: downgrading emacs for me to 28.3 (F38) gets rid of the problem that I was having, and that is, that emacs 29.1 can not load a file for me (without emacs -Q).
With emacs -Q in 29.1 (F39), I can load the file all right, but I do not have the correct fonts, and I can not seem to load those.
I wonder why emacs users have not reported my issue with 29.1 on the emacs mailing list.
Best wishes, Ranjan