From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get the new frame? Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:47:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83egjx3bw5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150721004403.1229.1C8BC4D7@ahiker.mooo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437745728 28030 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2015 13:48:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:48:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 24 15:48:40 2015 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 1ZIdL5-0002YE-HS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:48:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIdL4-0002zS-Ud for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIdKh-0002sW-Pl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIdKe-0004Z0-IF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:46479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZIdKe-0004Yk-Ap for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NRZ00C00VN10E00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:47:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NRZ00BQJVNTXK30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:47:54 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:105966 Archived-At: > From: "B. T. Raven" > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:51:11 -0500 > > Thanks, Eli. For a number of years I have thought that changing the font > applied to all buffers. Was this ever true since ver. 20 or 21? Yes, buffer-face-mode was introduced in Emacs 23.1. > I think the problem with mm height and width is due to Emacs assuming 72 > ppi (display-pixels-per-inch) rather than the true value of 120 ppi. Possibly. It's what Windows reports to us. > (x-)display-pixel-height and -width return the correct values of 900 and > 1440 respectively. Then use those, instead of the mm dimensions. > Btw, are there other buffers besides calendar that need monospace to > display correctly? I use proportional font even in .emacs merely for > aesthetic reasons. Any major mode for some programming language will look weird with variable-pitch fonts, IMO.