From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Weird problem with inital frame sizing
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:14:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmuskhoos.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180913173401.5e2f9c45@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message of "Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:34:01 -0400")
>> >> (set-face-attribute 'default nil
>> >> :family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :height 140)
>> I'd recommend you move away from set-face-attribute.
> What's the reason for that?
It's a low-level tool that's designed to modify the face for a particular
frame, and not some user-level preference.
>> (face-spec-set 'default
>> '((((type x)) :family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :height 140)
>> (((type ns)) :family "Monaco" :height 100)
>> (t :family :height 120)))
>
> Why is this preferable?
Because it lets you set your face-preferences before knowing whether
they will apply to a frame under the X11 GUI, or under a tty, or ...
This started being important when we added the multi-tty support, so the
same Emacs session can have both GUI frames and tty frames (where some
tty frames offer 8 colors, other 256 color, others no colors at all),
but the problem existed before already since previous Emacsen could also
have several GUI frames on different X server, some limited to
a monochrome display, and others not.
> And what does it have to do with the overall problem I'm having?
Nothing directly. You just pulled on one of the loose threads ;-)
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-14 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-12 14:37 Weird problem with inital frame sizing Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-12 14:50 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-12 15:35 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-12 15:47 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-12 17:01 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-13 11:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-13 19:08 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-13 19:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-13 19:17 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-13 19:23 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-13 19:31 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-13 20:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-13 21:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-14 1:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-15 23:23 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-16 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 13:31 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-17 13:49 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-13 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-13 19:25 ` Perry E. Metzger
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