From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John P. Burkett" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: font missing Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:16:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4A306915.8070903@uri.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244708401 28781 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2009 08:20:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:20:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 11 10:19:59 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 1MEfVu-0003it-7T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:19:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44166 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MEfVt-0000i4-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:19:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MEa7Q-0000Ti-G5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MEa7M-0000TM-28 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49621 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MEa7L-0000TJ-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from vms173009pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.9]:42133) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MEa7L-0005tz-AB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.20] ([96.233.148.239]) by vms173009.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KL100FIMYC5DLF1@vms173009.mailsrvcs.net> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:16:53 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090608) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:19:37 -0400 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:65138 Archived-At: I've been happily using emacs on a Gentoo-Linux machine for several years. The font I liked was specified in my .emacs file with the line (set-default-font "10x20"). After a recent upgrade of Gentoo, this font specification did not work as before. Using the old .emacs file and doing "emacs --debug-init" now produces a message that starts as follows: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable no) eval-buffer(# nil "/home/john/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 3358 load-with-code-conversion("/home/john/.emacs" "/home/john/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[nil " Doing "xlsfonts -l 10x20" at the Gentoo prompt elicits this response: DIR MIN MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME --> 0 255 some 0 23 15 5 -cronyx-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-koi8-r Interpreting this as a translation of the nickname 10x20 into the long name, I edited my .emacs file, replacing (set-default-font "10x20") with (set-default-font "-cronyx-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-koi8-r") With that change done, emacs starts without any error message. However, the font is not quite the same as the old one. The old font had no serifs except on the letters i and l, where they avoid confusion with the number 1. The new font has serifs on most letters and, to my eye, looks unnecessarily cluttered. With emacs running, I tried holding down the shift key and clicking the left mouse button. That as expected brought up a font menu. Selecting "Misc 10x20" elicited the response "Font not found." Suggestions for recovering the old "10x20" font would be appreciated. -John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195