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.bugs Subject: bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances. Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:08:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83wnqv2e7g.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="883"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 49050@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jeff B Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 15 20:09:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1ltDUu-000AaK-36 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:09:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43482 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltDUs-0002F5-Px for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltDUj-0002Ev-VS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltDUj-00043Y-Np for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ltDUj-0005LO-Hj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:09:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:09:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 49050 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 49050-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B49050.162378051020502 (code B ref 49050); Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:09:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 49050) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Jun 2021 18:08:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50720 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ltDUD-0005Kc-M3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55056) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ltDUA-0005KM-Ph for 49050@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:08:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltDU5-0003dh-H3; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:08:21 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1559 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltDU5-0001jl-4m; Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:08:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jeff B on Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:47:33 -0400) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:208586 Archived-At: > From: Jeff B > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:47:33 -0400 > > > I've been using EMACS for 35 or 40 years now and EVERY DAMN TIME > I SWITCH SYSTEMS I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT ALL OVER AGAIN HOW TO > CHANGE THE DAMN FONT SIZE SO THAT IT'S BIG ENOUGH THAT I CAN > READ IT  *AND*  SAVE THAT SIZE SO THAT IT WILL BE THERE THE > NEXT TIME I START UP EMACS.  The mix of fonts with all their different > attributes may be fine for persons who want to play games with > appearance, but most of us just want to be able to set the font to be > the right size REGARDLESS of all the fancy colors and stuff of the > various modes & themes.  Yes I have used OPTIONS/SET-DEFAULT-FONT > and it is simple enough to increase the size there but nothing I have > tried on this latest system, shown below, and all prior systems, has > allowed me to set the size and save it so that I get it back when I > restart EMACS, and it makes me nuts.  All this font stuff is so complex > that it amounts to being a BUG for the ordinary user, especially those > of us who have eye troubles.  :-( Please try putting this into your ~/.emacs: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 150) (tune the value 150 to your liking). This should work on all platforms, regardless of the font used for the default face.