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 10:32:19 -0500 Organization: Still searching... 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Captured the output of EVAL: (x-list-fonts "*") ("-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-75-75-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0" "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-75-75-c-120-iso8859-1" "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-100-100-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0" "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1" "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-75-75-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0" "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1" "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-100-100-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0" "-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1" "-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-60-koi8-r" "-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15" "-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1" "-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" ...) I guess the `...' means a whole herd was elided >> xlsfonts shows 5681 with names beginning `^-' > > What is the output of: > > (length (x-list-fonts "*")) > For me it is 4968. Here it's 1287 But when the item was introduced into the thread it was presented as a way to see `all' fonts. Thierry V. wrote in Message-ID: <87eitdqyvg.fsf@tux.homenetwork> > You can see all the xfonts available in emacs with: > (x-list-fonts "*") Did you mean to be used some other way than eval? Using completion as Bernardo suggests: > M-x set-default-font RET TAB TAB Does appear to list them all... and with nice newlines.