Re: Incorrect font weight selected

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Fri, Dec 17 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Emacs by default requests the normal (a.k.a. "regular") weight, so
> what you see now is the correct expected behavior.  If previously
> Emacs selected the "medium" weight, that was a subtle bug.

But as you saw, I'm explicitly setting the default face, and that
includes selecting 'medium as the font weight.

>> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Iosevka"
>>                     :height 140 :weight 'medium)
>> 
>> If I re-evaluate this _after_ the frame has been created though, the
>> correct weight is selected.
>
> This is the intended behavior, so I don't think there's anything we
> need to fix here.

Why this call should select a different font when executed during init
vs. when called interactively?