From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: The relationship of settings for font in init.el and the one shown on "Pick a font" UI. Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:27:06 +0200 Message-ID: <834kju2iid.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40246"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 16:31:58 2021 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 1kxAmy-000AL0-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:31:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46820 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAmx-0004mh-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:31:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34894) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAiM-0001JP-5N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:27:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAiL-00029J-Te for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:27:09 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4334 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAiI-00083J-U2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:27:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Hongyi Zhao on Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:33:13 +0800) 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:127021 Archived-At: > From: Hongyi Zhao > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:33:13 +0800 > > On the "Pick a font" UI, I select the following font and then "Save Options": > > "DejaVuSansMono Nerd Font Mono Book" > > Then I noticed that emacs will generate the following settings in the init.el: > > (custom-set-faces > ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. > '(default ((t (:family "DejaVuSansMono Nerd Font Mono" :foundry > "PfEd" :slant normal :weight normal :height 143 :width normal))))) > > I still can't find out the exact correspondence between the settings > for font in init.el and the one shown on "Pick a font" UI. Any hints > will be highly appreciated. Which is the problematic part? The font name got recorded as "family", is that the problem? If not what is?