From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using emacs with nx Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:24:11 +0200 Message-ID: <6632AA62-A99A-4EC2-8FAC-3C0CAFA2DDF0@Web.DE> References: <70588E74-25DA-4396-8B38-6483EE5D88F3@web.de> <77681328-1077-406D-8962-43FA6A41BDBB@web.de> <83ppu1xrkw.fsf@gnu.org> <87txjcn5mi.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375173742 24788 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 08:42:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 10:42:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V45Vd-0007Ni-Fc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:42:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V45Vd-0006Gk-43 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:42:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V45VC-0005yr-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V45V4-0003Cc-Nf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:56648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V45E7-0005s6-7z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:24:15 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.223.145.86]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0M24vT-1UEj3f14yx-00u53P for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:24:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87txjcn5mi.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:gku/JZQe/g3fEuaRNv2Tyx2uNpD0SBddyePme3IR0vcCs+J7YEJ eO/UrWUDWfZrFQbYNdD22SNKM6DOj41lNcsQsYtSDzUpjMPDE6d1m6nUfX0/Ret4N/XMqYl ncx6w0jjHAG0tW/Z0R04Kgbn9ZZDu4hs4q+qtnDLuA3b+2DDRl3Fzb7O5lrXlR5aNRSK8YU n7+/gl4bDjrLG3p7xnvBQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92534 Archived-At: Am 30.07.2013 um 04:28 schrieb Harry Putnam: > Another way that comes to mind is to run the command: >=20 > M-x set-default-font This is a bit out of sorts. The *Completions* buffer only lists a few = thousand fonts served by the X server (i.e., XLFD format). Not one from = libfontconfig is among them. IOW, the list contains mostly bitmapped = fonts. This was OK and helpful last millennium. (OK, I also used it = early this one, because there were no other means available.) The GNU Emacs versions for non-X11 windowing systems seem to do a better = job. At least my two Mac OS X variants (NS and AppKit) list the system's = fonts =96 but in XLFD notation. Both have a simpler interface via = S-mouse-1 which opens the system's standard dialog to choose a font. = (Which does not have n XLFD name.) -- Greetings Pete Atheism is a non prophet organisation.