Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Tim Johnson]

Hello:
I have just migrated from slack 10.0 to kubuntu 7.04 amd 64. Emacs
was installed using the apt-get system.

In my .Xdefaults on slack, I used the following directive:
Emacs*Font: -adobe-times-bold-i-normal--12-120-75-75-p-68-iso8859-1
and was very happy with the display.

The same 'code' on ubuntu has unhappy results, everything is in italics.
Commenting out that code makes for a nice display, but font is too large
for my preference.

Does anyone have any recommendations?
I used xlsfonts >file to capture the output and tried a few settings,
but nothing pleased me...
thanks
tim

Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Tyler Smith]

On 2007-05-30, Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> wrote:
>
> In my .Xdefaults on slack, I used the following directive:
> Emacs*Font: -adobe-times-bold-i-normal--12-120-75-75-p-68-iso8859-1
> and was very happy with the display.
>
> The same 'code' on ubuntu has unhappy results, everything is in italics.
> Commenting out that code makes for a nice display, but font is too large
> for my preference.
>

Try:

-adobe-times-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-68-iso8859-1

Note the change   ^

If you don't like that, open xfontsel and play around with the options
until you find a combination you like.

HTH,

Tyler

Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Tim Johnson]

Tyler Smith wrote:

x
> Try:
> 
> -adobe-times-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-68-iso8859-1
 Yup. I like that.

> If you don't like that, open xfontsel and play around with the options
> until you find a combination you like.
  xfontsel! That's what I was trying to remember.

> HTH,
  Sure did
  thanks
  tim 

Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
() Tue, 29 May 2007 18:35:54 -0800

   xfontsel! That's what I was trying to remember.

some old code that wraps xlsfonts(1) to effect an "in-buffer xfontsel":
<http://www.gnuvola.org/software/personal-elisp/dist/lisp/low-stress/set-font-at-point.el>

thi

Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Rustom Mody]

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How do you folk manage editing code?

I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of screen space
And with a proportional font the indentation gets messed up because the
default space-width is too narrow.

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RE: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Drew Adams]

> I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of
> screen space And with a proportional font the indentation
> gets messed up because the default space-width is too narrow.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/GoodFonts

Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Rustom Mody]

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Yeah wish for the good ol days (Sigh)
When I was a C programmer (and equally haskell, lisp, assembly...) I used a
console and left fonts (and X) to the sissies who liked eye-candy.
Today I work with ruby on rails -- involves at any time 10-15 buffers to be
**simultaneously** manipulated selected from close to a hundred files.

All to be done on a 15 inch monitor (until Monday when my machine was hacked
into when I carelessly left my root open and sshd running!).  Now it wont
boot and so I'm on my 14 inch laptop.



Now what is it you were saying about 80 columns ??





On 5/31/07, Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Rustom Mody wrote:
> > How do you folk manage editing code?
> >
> > I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of screen space
>
> All code is narrow enough to fit on a hollerith card (80 columns).
> How could you run out of screen space?
>

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Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[David Kastrup]

"Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> How do you folk manage editing code?
>
> I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of screen
> space And with a proportional font the indentation gets messed up
> because the default space-width is too narrow.

Courier has a bad legibility/screenestate ratio.  I use 10x20, a fixed
width _pixel_ font (meaning that some human designed this pixel for
pixel, rather than relying on some rasterizer to come up with some
approximation to an outline, a process that starts working somewhat
tolerably at resolutions of 200dpi and higher).

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Alexey Pustyntsev]

"Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> How do you folk manage editing code?
>
> I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of screen space
> And with a proportional font the indentation gets messed up because the default space-width is too
> narrow.
>

Hi!

I am using a fixed width font and all my lines of code don't span 72
characters. I think this length is comfortable and there is plenty 
of space left. 

-- 
Rgds
Alexey

Today is Boomtime, the 6th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3173

Re: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux

[Ken Goldman]

I personally like Lucida console bold, but everyone has their 
preference.  I agree that a fixed width font is preferable for code 
portability.

I limit my lines to ~100 characters so I can put two windows side by 
side.  If you have very wide lines, perhaps the issue is your coding 
style.  As with newspapers, narrower columns will be easier for your 
maintainer to read.

Rustom Mody wrote:
> How do you folk manage editing code?
> 
> I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of screen space
> And with a proportional font the indentation gets messed up because the 
> default space-width is too narrow.
> 
>