From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Visual font looping setup Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:23:40 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83lfevztlq.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7pjyy6z.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18910"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 21 12:41:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kgRGP-0004ot-TG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 12:41:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59376 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgRGO-0002VG-VI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:41:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgRFy-0002V7-43 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:52095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgRFw-0004TL-1o; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:40:41 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.56]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0006.000000005FB8FCB4.000038DF; Sat, 21 Nov 2020 11:40:36 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83h7pjyy6z.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125438 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii [2020-11-21 10:20]: > > S-mouse-1 opens up same dialog. > > I guess the toolkit which you used to build Emacs doesn't have a > well-designed font selection dialog. Thank you. Then it is it, I use Lucid version as it occupies less space in general than GTK. > Yes. If your Emacs was built with GTK, x-select-font should start a > GTK font selection dialog showing many fonts. > > Of course, you can always write a simple command that loops over all > the fonts in the list created by this: > (x-list-fonts "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" 'default (selected-frame)) > and display some sample text using each font. Or just looks at the > list returned by the above, and try some of the fonts manually (with > set-frame-font or somesuch). Then I will use that.