From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: use-default-font-for-symbols vs. emojis
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:40:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhfcoq38.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zi1s5gv.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Kévin Le Gouguec on Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:40:00 +0100)
> From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:40:00 +0100
>
> > it was with U+2699, for
> > which I see no reason to use a font different from the default, except
> > in exceptional cases (for which you have that variable).
>
> In my case, the reason is as trivial as "it wooks pwetty".
Then there's an alternative: change your default font.
> I do acknowledge that using e.g. Noto Color Emoji comes with a few
> disadvantages though (characters have variable widths; their foreground
> color cannot be set…)
That's exactly one of the reasons why Emacs by default prefers the
default font, which is fixed-pitch and its size matches the rest of
the text.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-28 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-23 18:15 Wrestling with set-fontset-font Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-23 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 18:52 ` use-default-font-for-symbols vs. emojis (was: Wrestling with set-fontset-font) Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-27 20:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 20:32 ` use-default-font-for-symbols vs. emojis Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 23:40 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-28 7:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-29 16:14 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
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