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: Can you recommand some good fonts for emacs22 ? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:37:40 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ocrffjqz.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87iqipa9l5.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> <87eitdqyvg.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87iqhnhcq5.fsf@newsguy.com> <8763dnhbbc.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248104316 6809 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2009 15:38:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:38:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 20 17:38:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MSuwe-0007JH-HU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:38:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSuwd-0006Fx-Gv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSuwG-0006DU-Uv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSuwC-00068q-It for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48395 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSuwC-00068l-Dr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36839 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSuwB-0004gA-PM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MSuw6-0007Jj-VO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:37:54 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:37:54 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:37:54 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 56 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aZ76YT2NM7j4+CBTZToxFiVy8bc= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66250 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: [...] >> 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- or >> 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... 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 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.