From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 67449@debbugs.gnu.org, kevin.legouguec@gmail.com
Subject: bug#67449: Manual: add how to change default global font size in .emacs
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:42:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sf4l82zi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8dc1669f020a6a5ffcf2efd1ff541c18@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on Sat, 02 Dec 2023 11:16:14 +0800)
> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 11:16:14 +0800
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Cc: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>,
> 67449@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> So the default size "10" must be buried in the C source code, and if
> the user wants to change *it* they must recompile emacs.
> Too bad.
It isn't too bad, since the default size can be customized, as
explained by that section of the manual.
> $ emacs -Q -eval "(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height (* 18 6))"
> tests great! (Except I found I needed to multiply any value I wanted by
> six, in order to get that value. At least on a Chromebook.)
The section "Frame Parameters" explains how to do this for the init
file. (The section "Fonts", which started this discussion, has a
hyper-link to "Frame Parameters".)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-02 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-26 2:18 bug#67449: Manual: add how to change default global font size in .emacs Dan Jacobson
2023-11-26 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-26 13:28 ` Dan Jacobson
2023-11-26 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-26 20:55 ` Dan Jacobson
2023-11-27 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-29 3:10 ` Dan Jacobson
2023-11-29 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-30 7:23 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2023-11-30 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-02 3:16 ` Dan Jacobson
2023-12-02 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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