From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help in querying xlsfonts for a particular font from elisp Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:16:23 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156778255 13306 80.91.229.2 (28 Aug 2006 15:17:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 28 17:17:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHirm-0002QV-Mt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:17:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHirm-0007zV-5n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHira-0007zP-0c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHirX-0007zD-GP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:17:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHirX-0007zA-8I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GHj0V-00036J-De for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GHirQ-0002Mn-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:17:12 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:17:12 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:17:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: 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:36992 Archived-At: Andrew M. Scott wrote: > I really like the "vera sans mono" font, but it's only available on > some of the platforms I use. > > My .emacs currently uses the elisp fragment below, with a simple (getenv "PLATFORM") > kludge in the test section; however this fails if I ssh from > a supported platform's xterm onto an unsupported platform. > > I'd like help with cleaner solution to test for a supported platform > font. > > (when () > (set-face-font 'default "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-16-120-*-*-*-*-*-1") > ;; AMS: Not clear why I need these next two lines > (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-16-120-*-*-*-*-*-1")) > (add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist '(font . "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-16-120-*-*-*-*-*-1")) > (set-frame-position (selected-frame) -8 -100) > ) > > The X11 xlsfonts command seems promising, e.g. > > xlsfonts -fn "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-16-120-*-*-*-*-*-1" | wc -l > returns > 2 > on a supported platform, and the two lines > > xlsfonts: pattern "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-16-120-*-*-*-*-*-1" unmatched > 0 > > I've played with variations of shell-command e.g. > (when (shell-command "xlsfonts -fn '-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-16-120-*-*-*-*-*-1' | wc -l" t) > (message "font exists") > (message "font doesn't exist")) You need `if', not `when' there. > but the shell calling subtleties escape me. Is there a non-interactive > version of shell-command? First, does (x-list-fonts ""-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-16-120-*-*-*-*-*-1") work? If not, try calling the xlsfonts command with `shell-command-to-string' instead of `shell'. -- Kevin