Emacs Cannot find Fonts

[Suvayu Ali]

On Saturday 25 July 2009 05:40 AM, Jim Duda wrote:
> I'm running fedora 11.
>
> Can anyone explain why emacs won't start ?
>
> If I do this:
> $ /usr/bin/emacs
> I get in response:
> Font `-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1' is
> not defined
>
>
> However, if I then do this:
> $ /usr/bin/emacs -fn
> '-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1'
>
> then emacs starts just fine.
>
> I've reinstalled both emacs and xorg-x11-fonts-misc
>
> Can anyone explain what's going on?
>
> What package might I be missing?
>

I don't know what your problem is, but I have seen your thread in 
help-gnu-emacs, and the only thing I have to suggest is "use emacs 23". 
I was also having lots of little problems with the default emacs build 
for F11. Finally I gave up, and gave in to my temptation to try out 
emacs 23.

Just do 'yum remove emacs' and then 'yum install emacs 
--enablerepo=rawhide', you wont regret it. Everything is so awesome in 
emacs 23 ... can't rave enough.

GL

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Suvayu

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