From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Weird problem with inital frame sizing Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:34:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20180913173401.5e2f9c45@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20180912103723.0999377c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180913150851.3a330def@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180913151516.78aa0de4@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180913152355.7618b1a2@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20180913153151.0a14f736@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536874530 5048 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2018 21:35:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 23:35:26 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0ZGn-0001BW-Tc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:35:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0ZIu-0006o1-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0ZIk-0006ne-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0ZIV-0006eQ-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:56324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0ZIO-0004yv-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DD3213; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:34:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262AD2DF976; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 17:34:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229762 Archived-At: On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:20:10 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> (set-face-attribute 'default nil > >> :family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :height > >> 140) > > I'd recommend you move away from set-face-attribute. What's the reason for that? > > I need to condition my init on whether I'm running under X, on a > > terminal, or under cocoa ("ns"), so I need to know the value of > > window-system when setting things in my init file. (I use a single > > init file on many different machines for sanity's sake.) > > Faces can be set on a per-frame basis, and Custom knows how to > describe face settings that depend on the terminal. > > You can try something like > > (face-spec-set 'default > '((((type x)) :family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :height > 140) (((type ns)) :family "Monaco" :height 100) > (t :family :height 120))) Why is this preferable? And what does it have to do with the overall problem I'm having? Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com