From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Thierry Volpiatto'" <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>,
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Can you recommand some good fonts for emacs22 ?
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:15:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D7CD2F3C7CE44412AF3ABD722B7AFCD8@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws635o44.fsf@tux.homenetwork>
> >> How did you count the number of fonts found?
> >
> > Captured the output of EVAL: (x-list-fonts "*")
If you use `icicle-font', the total number is shown in the mode line (of
*Completions*). When you type in the minibuffer, the number of fonts matching
your input is shown there, updated as you type.
So, for example, if I type `Arial' and hit S-TAB, I see `84 candidates' in the
mode line, since I have 84 variations of Arial family fonts on my machine. If I
type `Arial.*bold S-TAB', I see `33 candidates', since I have 33 bold Arial
fonts.
> > Using completion as Bernardo suggests:
> >> M-x set-default-font RET TAB TAB
> > Does appear to list them all... and with nice newlines.
>
> As his name say, set-default-font ... set font, and is not intended to
> display font, even if you can do it with completion.
> If you press RET while browsing font like that, you will set a font.
> If it is a readable font you can come back to your default font, else,
> you will be good to restart emacs.
Right.
With `icicle-font' you can apply any number of the fonts (using `C-RET'
`C-mouse-2', or cycling with `C-down') to see what they look like, then hit
`C-g' to return to the font you started with. If you hit RET instead of `C-g',
then the font change remains (is not undone).
Another difference of `icicle-font' from `x-list-fonts' (which, as Thierry
guessed) `icicle-font' uses as a starting point), is that the fonts listed have
the same pixel size as the original font of the frame.
That is, Icicles transforms the font specs listed by `x-list-fonts', so the
candidates all have the same size as the original font. If the frame's default
font has size 12, then they will all have size 12. So when you choose a font the
size doesn't change, and you don't have multiple fonts to choose from that
differ only in size (too noisy).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-21 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1010.1245536389.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-21 8:16 ` Can you recommand some good fonts for emacs22 ? Marc Tfardy
2009-06-21 9:33 ` Peter Breitfeld
2009-06-24 13:41 ` Marc Tfardy
2009-07-21 3:19 ` Harry Putnam
2009-06-21 15:29 ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-06-21 17:29 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-06-21 17:44 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-20 10:26 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-20 10:56 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-20 13:50 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-20 15:37 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-20 18:08 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-20 10:30 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-20 10:37 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-20 10:52 ` Bernardo
2009-07-20 15:22 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-20 11:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-07-20 15:32 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-20 16:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-07-21 3:02 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-21 5:05 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-07-21 15:45 ` Harry Putnam
2009-07-21 4:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1032.1245605769.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-15 11:36 ` David Combs
2009-07-15 12:15 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-15 12:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.2548.1247662203.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-15 16:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-15 19:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <mailman.2584.1247686398.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-16 16:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-06-20 11:37 waterloo
2009-06-20 23:04 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-21 9:49 ` Teemu Likonen
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