Hi Eli Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Tomas Nordin <tom...@posteo.net> >> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 02:04:03 +0200 >> >> I have just installed 26.2 on the work computer I have. I also have >> 26.1. I just today discovered that visiting the hello file, `C-h h`, >> make Emacs really non-responsive. I am guessing it is some sort of font >> problem. What is a good advice to get around that if any? > > If you wait long enough, Emacs should eventually display the HELLO > file and become responsive again. Does that happen? If not, how long > have you waited for it? It takes 38 seconds. After that, other buffers are responsive and the HELLO buffer stay semi-responsive let's say. From the top and walking down some two lines a second with C-n goes OK until is start to stumble on this line first East Asia: 你好, 早晨, こんにちは, 안녕하세요 and some other lines. > If HELLO eventually does get displayed, look for the characters with > no fonts -- they are displayed as boxes with hex code. Install fonts > that cover those characters, and the problem should go away. With > Emacs 26.2, I suggest to install Symbola if you don't have it already. I couldn't find characters not displayed like that (boxes with hex code). By installing Symbola I took it to mean go to https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/symbola, download the zip, copy the Symbola.ttf file to the windows/fonts directory. Then put a proper configuration in the init file, like (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10")) adjusted for Symbola. But I don't know how to specify it. (I tried with just "Symbola" and that gave me something non-monospaced). > If you waited for, say, several minutes, and HELLO is still not > displayed, start by trying this in "emacs -Q". If the problem goes > away in "emacs -Q", some of your customizations are responsible, and > you should find them either by reviewing your init files or by > bisecting them. Experimenting with emacs -Q only. > It is also possible that you have an awful lot of fonts installed on > that system, way more than on an average Windows system out of the > box. On my systems "C-h h" takes between 10 and 20 sec, depending on > the OS version and the fonts I have installed, but I only installed > maybe a dozen or so beyond what came with the OS. That fonts folder showed something like 192 items. I don't know if its relevant but (length (x-list-fonts "*")) returned 1988. Also I forgot to say that the computer has windows 10. Best regards -- Tomas