From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can you recommand some good fonts for emacs22 ? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:56:55 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <8763dnhbbc.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87iqipa9l5.fsf@jehiel.elehack.net> <87eitdqyvg.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87iqhnhcq5.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248087475 16048 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2009 10:57:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:57:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 20 12:57:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MSqZ1-0000Xg-Vc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:57:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56050 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSqZ1-0006mp-H9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:57:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSqYe-0006mj-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MSqYa-0006mP-HS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53059 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSqYa-0006mM-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51112 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MSqYZ-0006LB-Qr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MSqYS-00043d-LX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:57:12 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:57:12 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:57:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 59 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5I/4voRo8h5rbjC4T7C0ebapUzw= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66237 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > "Drew Adams" writes: > >>> You can see all the xfonts available in emacs with: >>> (x-list-fonts "*") >>> >>> If you use anything package, you will find in anything-config.el a >>> source to browse all these fonts visually. >> >> Command `icicle-font' - browse visually, cycle, filter on font description >> parts, etc. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles > > I'm not sure what is supposed to happen with that... but what I get is > an unkillable monster that takes over my entire desktop. After > load-library and icy-mode > Using command M-x icicle-font > > First it hangs for several minutes and then pops up a massive instance > of emacs so big it prevents any usage at all. Finally dragging enough > of the monster to the left and finding the X in right hand > corner... but it doesn't affect this big useless brute. > > Finally closed with kill-all command. from OS. > > Appears to need a tab bit of work. > > I use a very large desktop. 2048 x 1536 Apparently icicles wants to > operate in full screen mode. Is that necessary? Drew, I may have opened my big mouth a bit early above... on a second try I'm politely prompted to insert a font name/string/regex. Not sure what I may have done... to cause the first situation... when emacs sort of froze I may have pressed or click something to cause the full screen buffer to expand. But this time, having loaded icicles, and set icy-mode, it appears to have destroyed completion at the M-x cmdline. For example... there is no completion for M-x icicles- or Also it apparently expects some specialized name to be inserted. Things like `*' or `adobe' get the error message: [no-prefix-completion]. Your comment: "filter on font description parts" would seem to indicate some part of font name but I find only something beginning with '-' works. So a very special part of font name. For example `-' causes all fonts to be listed, while `adobe' fails to list any and gives the message: [no-prefix-completion] And `-adobe' appears to list all adobe fonts. But something like `-.*bold' fails.