From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: henry atting Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and special chars (emoticons) Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:19:15 +0100 Organization: LiteraturLateNight Message-ID: <87eh4mbujg.fsf@bye.fritz.box> References: <87lhywon3w.fsf@bye.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388917214 4048 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 10:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:20:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 11:20:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzkod-0006Mm-Di for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 11:20:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57342 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzkoc-00041C-OB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 05:20:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: port-92-195-86-155.dynamic.qsc.de Original-X-Trace: online.de 1388917175 9711 92.195.86.155 (5 Jan 2014 10:19:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 10:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gdu5yxt6AmBHWpcOCJuP/Lo8K4U= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202995 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95264 Archived-At: > I can live without emoticons but what people write via jabber > (I use emacs jabber) looks ugly with all those substitute characters. > I thought it would be a good idea to install a font which contains all > these symbols (Symbola) and make it known to emacs with > unicode-fonts.el. > This appeared to be not a good idea. > Emacs startup time increased to about 5 minutes. > All the `tweaks' like > > unicode-fonts-existence-checks (quote none) > unicode-fonts-restrict-to-fonts (quote ("Symbola"))) > unicode-fonts-skip-font-groups (quote ...) > > did help nothing. > > What would be the appropriate way to make emacs display emoticons (from > Symbola font)? Since my emacs already knows about all fontsets I need I »solved« it with utmost cruelty (though I can assure that no harm to animals or any other living creature is done): I renamed unicode-fonts.el, then stripped off everything from the new file that will search for any other fontset than `Symbola'. It works fine and does not perceptibly increase startup time.