From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: OS/X emacs now defaults to variable width font Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:29:08 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371050987 7815 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2013 15:29:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:29:47 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 12 17:29:47 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 1UmmzZ-00058a-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:29:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmmzZ-0000aO-AZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44570) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmmzN-0000a0-0V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:29:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmmzK-0001Yi-Eg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::236]:61762) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmmzK-0001YK-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id m6so607594wiv.9 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:29:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=j2VM79uXWUSceiW107k5yDWQHUYTNAUitVL284KSMN4=; b=RDzSAst1FfAY2rX2OYVmw9nzbIfuz62vxh4Qv/DxsJ4eQ4/H5Y71pTf5WAlWwIhkkQ kQ4o595FNpA7d0ZT302mmAm2XED0BHg5s410R8cFA49pWpUprXaQQVQ7YftvYB9O9Jhv 1JBXAoELMtbQJr5MV6mTTWOHy9jYE6aNH8VOQeypC5AYDCcv2RS2t7UolwBZJybza1G+ 3yTAli7Rnu6hQIMPNRGOm77IhhCCFLeLBDdTATviiPFslxxCKh3+elYGkmqc9DfCXrJI ZowwXTzO9M/1XvRRmDcalgekfeb9EJa5x5xTnFOPXaL1d+mQijYBW625D/Iq2nY3HwS9 zkPA== X-Received: by 10.180.206.180 with SMTP id lp20mr4875072wic.41.1371050968833; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.87.68 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::236 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:91474 Archived-At: Hi, 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..... Thank you! - Bruce