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: set-default-font Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:27:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0xm4m34.fsf@gnu.org> References: <855b886e-8bb5-caad-ebc5-4f14b7da5765@mousecar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39545"; 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 Tue Aug 25 20:29:02 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 1kAdgr-000AAl-Qc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 20:29:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41920 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAdgq-0005BI-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAdgB-0005AU-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43653) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAdgB-0007l3-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4747 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kAdg6-0006ck-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:28:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <855b886e-8bb5-caad-ebc5-4f14b7da5765@mousecar.com> (message from ken on Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:54:09 -0400) 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:123763 Archived-At: > From: ken > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:54:09 -0400 > > In my ~/.emacs (version 27.1-1.1.x86_64, I believe) I have a function > containing > > set-default-font "-*-*-regular-r-*-*-*-180-*-75-*-*-iso8859-1") This setting is redundant, because Emacs does that by default. I suggest that you simply delete it, you shouldn't see any difference. > Secondly, to fix my ~/.emacs can I just edit "set-default-font" and > change it to > "setup-default-fontset"? I don't think you should need that. > Thirdly, I long ago upgraded from any "Latin" character sets to UTF-8 > and, to me, that means I shouldn't be specifying any "*iso8859*" fonts.  > What command output would show me the available font(set)s I could use > in place of the 8859 stuff? Right, deleting that line will also solve this problem.