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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using emacs with nx
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:24:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6632AA62-A99A-4EC2-8FAC-3C0CAFA2DDF0@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txjcn5mi.fsf@newsguy.com>


Am 30.07.2013 um 04:28 schrieb Harry Putnam:

> Another way that comes to mind is to run the command:
> 
> M-x set-default-font <ENTER>

This is a bit out of sorts. The *Completions* buffer only lists a few thousand fonts served by the X server (i.e., XLFD format). Not one from libfontconfig is among them. IOW, the list contains mostly bitmapped fonts. This was OK and helpful last millennium. (OK, I also used it early this one, because there were no other means available.)

The GNU Emacs versions for non-X11 windowing systems seem to do a better job. At least my two Mac OS X variants (NS and AppKit) list the system's fonts – but in XLFD notation. Both have a simpler interface via S-mouse-1 which opens the system's standard dialog to choose a font. (Which does not have n XLFD name.)

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  Pete

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-10  7:34 using emacs with nx Andrew Michael Levin
2013-06-10 11:14 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-06-13 11:35   ` Andrew Michael Levin
2013-06-13 12:13     ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-29 13:35       ` Andrew Michael Levin
2013-07-29 15:11         ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-29 16:23           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-30  2:28             ` Harry Putnam
2013-07-30  8:24               ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2013-07-30 15:02                 ` Harry Putnam
2013-07-30 15:29                   ` Peter Dyballa

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