Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 emacs25-common 25.2+1-5
Control: retitle -1 emacs25-common: description of -fn in emacs(1) man page is 
not up-to-date

On 2009-10-03 20:47:47 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The emacs (emacs23) man page says:
> 
>   -fn font, --font font
>        Set the Emacs window's font to that specified  by  font.
>        You   will   find   the   various   X   fonts   in   the
>        /usr/lib/X11/fonts directory.  Note that Emacs will only
>        accept fixed width fonts.  Under the X11 Release 4 font-
>        naming conventions, any font with the value "m"  or  "c"
>        in  the eleventh field of the font name is a fixed width
>        font.  Furthermore, fonts whose name  are  of  the  form
>        widthxheight  are  generally fixed width, as is the font
>        fixed.  See xlsfonts(1) for more information.
> 
> At least the path /usr/lib/X11/fonts is wrong (according to strace).

This bug is still present in emacs25.

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