From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Recommend default font for emacs 21.4.1 on linux Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:01:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180639204 12966 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2007 19:20:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 19:20:04 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 21:19:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HtqBg-0005K8-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 21:19:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HtqBf-0006ds-Rs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HtqBR-0006dn-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HtqBQ-0006da-9L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HtqBQ-0006dX-2L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet02.oracle.com ([141.146.126.229]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HtqBP-0006io-OQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 15:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com (agminet01.oracle.com [141.146.126.228]) by agminet02.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l4VI2DmY013760 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 13:02:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l4VI29T3004391 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 13:02:09 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l4VHGsIN023038 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 12:02:08 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-179.us.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2746719671180634505; Thu, 31 May 2007 11:01:45 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44578 Archived-At: > I find that with a fixed width font (courier) I run out of > screen space And with a proportional font the indentation > gets messed up because the default space-width is too narrow. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/GoodFonts