Re: Can you recommand some good fonts for emacs22 ?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

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>> Not sure what I may have done... to cause the first situation... when
>> emacs sort of froze I may have pressed or click something to cause the
>> full screen buffer to expand.
>
> Dunno what happened. Sorry for your trouble.

Some fat handed thing on my part apparently..

>> But this time, having loaded icicles, and set icy-mode, it appears to
>> have destroyed completion at the M-x cmdline.
>
> Are you using a window manager or using Emacs just with a terminal?

Window manager (xfce4)

> Icicles should work in both cases, but I have no experience with the latter, and
> the user experience will be different in some ways. In particular, some of the
> default Icicles key bindings will not work (because those keys are typically not
> available in a terminal).


>> For example... there is no completion for M-x icicles-<spc> or <tab>
>> Also it apparently expects some specialized name to be inserted.
>> Things like `*' or `adobe' get the error message:
>>  [no-prefix-completion].
>
> That sounds correct, actually. The prefix for Icicles commands and variables is
> `icicle-', not `icicles-'. And SPC is self-inserting, by default - it does not
> perform completion.

I must have something set different than default here... <spc> does
completion in all the modes I commonly use.

> TAB should perform completion, however. It is font specs (full names, if you
> like) that are the completion candidates. On my system (Windows), all of the
> candidates start with `-outline' or `-raster'. When you use TAB, `*' is matched
> literally, not as a wildcard.

Yes, I see now where I used spc for completion in the initial command:
M-x icic<spc>  A tab does work there.  I expected spc to work as it
does in all other modes I use.

> If you use S-TAB instead, then `*' is a regexp wildcard, so to match a `*' you
> need to use, for example, `[*]' or `\*'. However, you can turn off regexp
> wildcards using `C-`' (during completion) - then, S-TAB does substring
> completion. In that case, you can type, e.g., `c-*-' to match all font specs
> that contain that string literally.

Ok, its all starting to make sense now... sorry for bad mouthing your
program without real effort testing.

And thanks for the thorough walk thru on how to use the tools.  Very helpful.