From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Setting font to Lucida Grande on Mac OS X Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:53:45 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200309192253.h8JMrjh28774@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200309151509.h8FF95Z22652@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87y8wpie1w.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200309170234.h8H2YH706063@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87pthzfvt3.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <3F68584E.7010900@gnu.org> <200309171655.h8HGtbl08972@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87d6dx82kq.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <200309191534.h8JFY4Z25206@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064012360 15857 80.91.224.253 (19 Sep 2003 22:59:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 20 00:59:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0UDd-0001Yt-00 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:59:17 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0UIG-0006g5-00 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:04:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A0UC9-0008V2-Bj for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A0UBg-0008NZ-6Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:57:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A0UBY-0008Ip-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A0UBX-0008I6-Ng; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8JMv3AJ006058; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:57:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h8JMrjh28774; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:53:45 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-reply-to: <200309191534.h8JFY4Z25206@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:34:04 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16499 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16499 One more remark about (emacs)Font X: I do not know whether it would be useful to include the little extra paragraph below starting with "Note that if you use a wildcard pattern on the command line,..." or whether that is redundant given the two examples above it. Note that this is tricky. For instance if you use bash and the `nullglob' shell option is not enabled (it is not by default) then bash leaves any pattern that matches no file unchanged. Hence the user could easily get the impression that quoting is unnecessary, because most of the time it is not. With `nullglob' enabled (as I do) bash replaces a pattern that does not match any file with the empty list and failing to quote _always_ leads to trouble. Relevant excerpt with proposed extra paragraph: Here is an example, which happens to specify the font whose nickname is @samp{6x13}: @smallexample emacs -fn \ "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1" & @end smallexample @noindent You can also specify the font in your @file{.Xdefaults} file: @smallexample emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1 @end smallexample Note that if you use a wildcard pattern on the command line, you need to enclose it in single or double quotes, to prevent the shell from accidentally expanding it into a list of file names. On the other hand, you should not quote the name in the @file{.Xdefaults} file. The default font used by Emacs (under X) is: @smallexample -adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 @end smallexample