From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interactive font selector Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:04:59 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87sn3oryes.fsf@enberg.org> References: <200206152147.g5FLl7Z10917@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024179161 21661 127.0.0.1 (15 Jun 2002 22:12:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 22:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jas@extundo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17JLmj-0005dG-00 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:12:41 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17JMCB-0006Go-00 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:38:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17JLmB-00062x-00; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailf.telia.com ([194.22.194.25]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17JLkL-00060v-00; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:10:13 -0400 Original-Received: from d1o1112.telia.com (d1o1112.telia.com [213.67.192.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5FMAC720887; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:10:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from rocksteady (h205n2fls32o1112.telia.com [213.65.65.205]) by d1o1112.telia.com (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g5FMABg17000; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:10:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from henrik by rocksteady with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17JLk6-0002b3-00; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:09:58 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200206152147.g5FLl7Z10917@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:47:07 -0600 (MDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 16 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4901 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4901 Richard Stallman writes: > Many word processors and text editors have a menu display on the > toolbar where you can select the font to display text in. > > We have something like this already, in the Text Properties menu. It > lets you set various aspects of the face, including colors and slant. > But it does not handle the font family (or the size). Speaking of which, The menu for changing the actual font is hidden down in "Options > Mule > Set Font/Fontset". I think that is a non-obvious place for such a menu. It would make sense to merge it with the text properties menu. -- Booting... /vmemacs.el