Re: default default face

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>>> It seems like it should be "Monospace" by default too, just like the
>>> `fixed' face.
>
> WDYT about making changing the defaults as follows:
>
> --- trunk/src/xrdb.c.~1.65.~	2008-06-02 12:27:57.000000000 -0400
..
> -  char *helv = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1";
> +  char *helv = "Sans";
>
>  #ifdef USE_MOTIF
> -  char *courier = "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1";
> +  char *courier = "Monospace";
>    extern Lisp_Object Vdouble_click_time;
>  #endif

Is that enough?  A grep for "courier" finds the following:

./src/widget.c:#define DEFAULT_FACE_FONT "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
./src/xfns.c:	= { "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1",
./src/xrdb.c:  char *courier = "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1";
./lisp/org/org-exp.el:	font-family: courier, monospace;
./lisp/play/gamegrid.el:(defvar gamegrid-font "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-100-75-*-*-iso8859-*"
./lisp/faces.el:  '(("Monospace" "courier" "fixed")
./lisp/faces.el:    ("courier" "fixed")
./lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el:  '((t :family "courier"))

[I removed a bunch of false hits, e.g. the ps-print stuff, and the
hardwired font menus in mouse.el]

Also, isn't the canonical fontconfig name "Sans-Serif"?

Thanks,

-Miles

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