From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Visher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OS/X emacs now defaults to variable width font Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:28:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371054622 5255 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2013 16:30:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: GNU Emacs To: Bruce Korb Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 12 18:30:24 2013 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 1UmnwD-0006gE-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmnwD-0002b0-5S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Umnul-00010y-Ul for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:28:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Umnuk-0001Hf-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vb0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c02::22a]:36364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Umnuk-0001HZ-2O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-vb0-f42.google.com with SMTP id i3so5938660vbh.1 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:28:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=TulgWeMVKNbuLfWluX0ljOQFmxwYvojOSt/7yVH1O/8=; b=f5fEmZFJOwXo63q84EdzdtbP4mHIed2x4KG71ZQAMXWWFXVeVkpnWKRlbhKY2aiWUE Jn7TtPCqztbtyf/q7NnOoVbGNYKjZEvryIcioKnzPh7K/YQbKPgWJtPTp3EkBbCQp56v uDrp1IiCMUctM24L3vTYpn5HaW0fNulMmd8kAoPeFHepaCWfRxuj+P4EccZiu2GRfj+O fHTRpvx+1/eWmgcAUYSxgEzc+zTV66TZE0TGx40bhtIS6LmCTINh0cW61AHUVGOz814f iuME5mhGemPQTELAdlKolstNEHJeo2rMPgY9ClnY6T3U9iB7pBNFs9WMLc/VsmxdqsWF mQ+Q== X-Received: by 10.58.41.105 with SMTP id e9mr1334882vel.14.1371054529379; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.50.78 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:28:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c02::22a 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:91477 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: > I've googled and googled and googled and all I find are either things that are > too complicated to figure out or else I wind up with fonts wherein 80 columns > takes up half of my 21 inch screen. Actually, some "proggy" thing worked > mostly okay, except for the fact that 8 character tabs really only > used 6 columns. > So emacs knew which column I was in, but my eyeballs did not. I just > want some sane font like, say, courier but asking emacs for that is beyond > my abilities. It really ought not be this difficult. Why not just a > nice simple > menu with the "quick brown fox" sample next to it and allowing me to set it > as the default? That would be really easy..... I'm not able to give you much help but you might try sending a little more information to the list. Especially emacs version. I've never had Emacs default to a variable-width font on any system, but it could also be something in your host OS's settings. -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://blog.twonegatives.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ -- Spend less time on mail