From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Visual font looping setup Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:30:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83im9zzs7m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lfevztlq.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16065"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 20 21:31:21 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kgD3w-00044V-FI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 21:31:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55970 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgD3v-0004kv-HM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:31:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgD3U-0004jb-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgD3U-0006gy-OB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:30:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2075 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kgD3R-0004yl-Vk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:30:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 20 Nov 2020 23:16:32 +0300) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125425 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 23:16:32 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Sure that I look into separate program and then try to set it in > Emacs. I have to know how to type the font and to choose various options in > Emacs to have the same font actually selected. It is tedious. ??? All you need is to tell Emacs which font to use, as in emacs -fn FONT-NAME And similar in your init file, using one of the available methods, for example set-face-attribute. > > Failing that, the font selection dialog popped by S-mouse-1 or > > Options->Set Default Font from the menu bar usually shows a small > > sample of each font as you scroll through their list. > > > > Does one of these fit the bill? > > I remember using that one before many years. For me that option almost > never gives satisfactorily result. I mentioned two possibilities, not one. Which one did you use, and how about to try the other one? > DejaVu Sans Mono is for example not listed there. Many other way > better and visually pleasant fonts are not there. In fact the option > chooses more or less majority of fonts that I consider not pleasant > for reading or working. > > I can see there only following: > > - Misc > - Courier > - Fontset > > Under fontset there are 2 options that change something, Courier > changes courier and Misc is pretty much ugly unless I enlarge those > fonts to be huge. Sounds like you tried S-mouse-1. Then try the other method I mentioned.