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: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:28:21 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87txjcn5mi.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <70588E74-25DA-4396-8B38-6483EE5D88F3@web.de> <77681328-1077-406D-8962-43FA6A41BDBB@web.de> <83ppu1xrkw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375151485 10783 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 02:31:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:31:25 +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 04:31:26 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 1V3zid-0002cj-Lo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:31:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3zid-0000pL-AW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3ziL-0000m8-7d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:31:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3ziF-0005Rd-8b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V3ziF-0005RZ-2O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:30:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V3ziE-0002Oo-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:30:58 +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 04:30:58 +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 04:30:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 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: sha1:7m6y3Y/iFCx8r1BVBv5BBjSFzg4= 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:92524 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Find at least one tool that can tell you which fonts are available >> in that "nx" environment. > > I'd start from Emacs itself. Like this: > > M-: (list-fonts (font-spec :family "")) RET > > Also, pressing S-mouse-1 should pop up a menu with an item that allows > to choose a font for the current buffer -- that is also a place where > one could see the available fonts. Another way that comes to mind is to run the command: M-x set-default-font Then at the prompt press the tab key a couple of times to see a list of available fonts. Don't necessarily pick one but save the buffer of the fontnames as a file then press Ctrl-g to get out of the command, and look thru those fontnames a bit.