While not quite related, I've had the following diff against cvs lisp/font-menu.el for a long time... Cheers. ChangeLog: 2002-10-14 Edward M. Lee <edward(a)tailifer.com&gt; * font-menu.el (font-menu-preferred-resolution): GTK support. * font-menu.el (font-menu-size-scaling): Ditto. * font-menu.el (font-menu-size-constructor): Use weight. * font-menu.el (font-menu-weight-constructor): Use size. * font-menu.el (font-menu-set-font): Handle nil font, family, size. Index: lisp/font-menu.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/font-menu.el,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4 font-menu.el --- lisp/font-menu.el 2002/06/20 21:18:03 1.4 +++ lisp/font-menu.el 2002/10/14 16:18:50 ＠＠ -137,11 +137,13 ＠＠ (defvar font-menu-preferred-resolution (make-specifier-and-init 'generic '((global ((mswindows) . ":") + ((gtk) . "*-*") ((x) . "*-*"))) t) "Preferred horizontal and vertical font menu resolution (e.g. \"75:75\").") (defvar font-menu-size-scaling (make-specifier-and-init 'integer '((global ((mswindows) . 1) + ((gtk) . 10) ((x) . 10))) t) "Scale factor used in defining font sizes.") ＠＠ -222,7 +224,7 ＠＠ (entry (aref font-data 0)) (family (aref font-data 1)) (size (aref font-data 2)) - ;;(weight (aref font-data 3)) + (weight (aref font-data 3)) s) (unless family (throw 'menu '(["Cannot parse current font" ding nil]))) ＠＠ -253,7 +255,7 ＠＠ (font-data (font-menu-font-data 'default dcache)) (entry (aref font-data 0)) (family (aref font-data 1)) - ;;(size (aref font-data 2)) + (size (aref font-data 2)) (weight (aref font-data 3)) w) (unless family ＠＠ -284,7 +286,7 ＠＠ (font-data (font-menu-font-data 'default dcache)) (from-family (aref font-data 1)) (from-size (aref font-data 2)) - (from-weight (aref font-data 3)) + (from-weight (aref font-data 3)) (from-slant (aref font-data 4)) (face-list-to-change (delq 'default (face-list))) new-default-face-font) ＠＠ -315,7 +317,9 ＠＠ (condition-case c (font-menu-change-face face from-family from-weight from-size - family weight size) + (or family from-family) + (or weight from-weight) + (or size from-size)) (error (display-error c nil) (sit-for 1))))) ＠＠ -330,7 +334,7 ＠＠ ;; OK Let Customize do it. (custom-set-face-update-spec 'default (list (list 'type (device-type))) - (list :family family + (list :family (or family from-family) :size (concat (int-to-string (/ (or size from-size) -----Original Message----- From: xemacs-beta-admin(a)xemacs.org [mailto:xemacs-beta-admin＠xemacs.org] On Behalf Of Michael Below Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:48 AM To: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org; bug(a)debian.org Subject: xemacs21: setting font size -> crash This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I started xemacs for the second time, started "Read Mail 2 (MH)" from the Tools/Internet menu, read a number of messages. Then I tried to increase the font size to 14(pt?) via the Options/Font Size menu, the option is labeled "0". On doing this xemacs crashed. I was asked to look for a file called core, but there is none in my home dir where I started xemacs. Also it said: Lisp backtrace follows: # bind (inhibit-quit) # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) And a last one: the uname below is wrong, probably its from the Debian package maintainer's system. Here I have got: ~ $uname -a Linux antithese.de 2.4.18 #1 Son Aug 18 15:28:25 MEST 2002 i586 unknown Hope this helps... Michael Below ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux eeyore 2.4.19-pre5-eeyore #1 Fri Apr 5 00:42:42 EST 2002 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-sound=none,native' '--cflags=-O2 -g -Wall' '--with-x11' '--extra-verbose' '--with-site-lisp' '--statedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs-21.4.6' '--prefix=/usr' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--dynamic' '--without-postgresql' '--with-gpm=no' '--with_menubars=lucid' '--with_scrollbars=lucid' '--with_dialogs=athena' '--docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.6/i386-debian-linux/mule/' '--with-mule' '--with-canna=no' '--with-wnn=no' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--package-path=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages:~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages:: /usr/share/xemacs21/packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/mule-packages:/usr/shar e/xemacs21/site-packages' 'i386-debian-linux' XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" configured for `i386-debian-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /home/dres/project/debian/current/xemacs21/xemacs-21.4.6 Installation prefix: /usr Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -O2 -g -Wall Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Linking with `-Xlinker -znocombreloc'. - Consider configuring with --pdump. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw - Athena library to link: Xaw Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Using Athena native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for LDAP. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. - Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Mail: Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. 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[Jim: I don't have the Debian bug number so I'm directing this to you; my apologies, please forward. NB: I'm in the process of releasing 21.4.10, it is available from CVS now via the release-21-4 tag, and will be on the ftp site in an hour or so, and official announcement to follow.] Michael, thanks for copying both lists; a crash is always an XEmacs (upstream) bug, but I'm sure the Debian maintainer appreciates knowing you're already in contact. Michael> On doing this xemacs crashed. I think this is fixed, please upgrade. I can't reproduce with 21.4.9 or 21.4.10. Debian is at 21.4.8; there was an important GCPRO bug[1] fixed in 21.4.9, so you may not get relief until Debian releases something newer. Michael> I was asked to look for a file called core, Most Linux distros do the equivalent of "ulimit -c 0", which inhibits production of core files. Do "ulimit -c unlimited". I think the policy of inhibiting core dumps is brain-damaged; people using stable apps won't see very many core dumps, but when they do it's definitely worth the risk that the dumps will start to fill up the disk. Is it really so hard to echo "locate core" > /etc/cron.daily/find-cores Michael> And a last one: the uname below is wrong, probably its Michael> from the Debian package maintainer's system. That's right; the Installation string is compiled into XEmacs at build time. We're looking at ways to get the runtime uname information, but we need to make it work on Windose and Mac too, if possible. Footnotes: [1] GCPRO bugs almost always result in crashes that can only be debugged because they go away when you fix the bug. :-/ -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.