From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Can you recommand some good fonts for emacs22 ? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:15:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87iqipa9l5.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> <87eitdqyvg.fsf@tux.homenetwork><87ab2zhc7x.fsf@newsguy.com> <871vobfv13.fsf@tux.homenetwork><87skgrfjzw.fsf@newsguy.com> <87ws635o44.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248149745 708 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 04:15:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:15:45 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Thierry Volpiatto'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 06:15:38 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 1MT6lN-0002P9-6Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:15:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MT6lM-0004fB-9A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:15:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MT6l1-0004et-8M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MT6kw-0004ZC-AF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60594 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MT6kw-0004Z5-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:61440) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MT6kv-0001GM-LP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n6L4ElK5005332 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:14:49 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt005.oracle.com (abhmt005.oracle.com [141.146.116.14]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n6L4F2C6014111; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:15:03 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.72.165) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:15:02 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87ws635o44.fsf@tux.homenetwork> Thread-Index: AcoJVf+uPt6HCP1TQ5qcyq2JTqKrzQAYUSUw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt005.oracle.com [141.146.116.14] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010201.4A6540C7.0010:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:66269 Archived-At: > >> How did you count the number of fonts found? > > > > Captured the output of EVAL: (x-list-fonts "*") If you use `icicle-font', the total number is shown in the mode line (of *Completions*). When you type in the minibuffer, the number of fonts matching your input is shown there, updated as you type. So, for example, if I type `Arial' and hit S-TAB, I see `84 candidates' in the mode line, since I have 84 variations of Arial family fonts on my machine. If I type `Arial.*bold S-TAB', I see `33 candidates', since I have 33 bold Arial fonts. > > Using completion as Bernardo suggests: > >> M-x set-default-font RET TAB TAB > > Does appear to list them all... and with nice newlines. > > As his name say, set-default-font ... set font, and is not intended to > display font, even if you can do it with completion. > If you press RET while browsing font like that, you will set a font. > If it is a readable font you can come back to your default font, else, > you will be good to restart emacs. Right. With `icicle-font' you can apply any number of the fonts (using `C-RET' `C-mouse-2', or cycling with `C-down') to see what they look like, then hit `C-g' to return to the font you started with. If you hit RET instead of `C-g', then the font change remains (is not undone). Another difference of `icicle-font' from `x-list-fonts' (which, as Thierry guessed) `icicle-font' uses as a starting point), is that the fonts listed have the same pixel size as the original font of the frame. That is, Icicles transforms the font specs listed by `x-list-fonts', so the candidates all have the same size as the original font. If the frame's default font has size 12, then they will all have size 12. So when you choose a font the size doesn't change, and you don't have multiple fonts to choose from that differ only in size (too noisy).