From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: changing font and font size in terminal emacs-27.2 Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 22:33:29 +0530 Message-ID: <8535rm8pzy.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8547"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:tinD6WOKX0HVPtowkx3N5vx6oDE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 19:04:03 2021 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 1mC3GN-000266-0G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2021 19:04:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32774 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mC3GL-0006Oo-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mC3Fz-0006Oa-Ge for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41814) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mC3Fy-0005Tc-4n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2021 13:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mC3Fv-0001bz-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2021 19:03:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:132376 Archived-At: How do I change the font and size when I run emacs in a terminal i.e emacs-nox? I'm running emacs-27.2 in wsl and for the GUI emacs I can configure the font like so ;; GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, ;; cairo version 1.16.0) of 2021-08-06 (message "setting font type and size") (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Cascadia Mono-13")) ;;(set-frame-font "-outline-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-r-normal-normal-*-*-130-130-c-*-iso8859-1") ;;(set-frame-font "-outline-Cascadia Mono-normal-normal-normal-mono-17-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1") this same init file when read by emacs-nox doesn't seem to apply the font. C-u C-x = in terminal emacs doesn't show the font type. The manual section doesn't mention anything about terminal based emacs and addresses 4 methods for the GUI emacs only. sivaram --