From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using emacs with nx Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:02:50 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87iozshyzp.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <70588E74-25DA-4396-8B38-6483EE5D88F3@web.de> <77681328-1077-406D-8962-43FA6A41BDBB@web.de> <83ppu1xrkw.fsf@gnu.org> <87txjcn5mi.fsf@newsguy.com> <6632AA62-A99A-4EC2-8FAC-3C0CAFA2DDF0@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375196760 31732 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 15:06:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:06:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 17:06:01 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 1V4BUu-0003eP-EV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:06:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39140 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BUu-00041N-0V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BUd-0003zt-5I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BUV-0007qh-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:05:42 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BUU-0007qE-RP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4BUM-0003Jy-CB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:05:26 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:05:26 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:05:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LrWtS72oaWAFBKrbrsEYRxNk0SQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:92553 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 30.07.2013 um 04:28 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> Another way that comes to mind is to run the command: >> >> 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.) OK, the S-mouse1 seems better in some ways. > 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 – 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.) XLFD? Just curious: Why is better for fonts not to be in XLFD notation?