From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting font size Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:25:57 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <45258d6d-5531-45e7-a218-78dc573a7b9e@e14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <87ffa262-6669-4080-b017-5c69da9c6603@j18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <69ac2c54-6db3-4b0a-a6f1-3fafd878b393@g25g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291879901 16012 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 07:31:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 07:31:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 08:31:36 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQayW-0006xP-4O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:31:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQayU-0008Hc-Sk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:31:35 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="m5Xp1AeG0rhUixp3PGRKOA"; logging-data="28906"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19APbOtckHQ7LpYMxRSeaxZl2GlICK5wZI=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lV1MZKs/x4yJs0X91/b8tvhEm/g= sha1:BzY1eseWAdurhs5VvcRVARLN3F4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182161 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:76830 Archived-At: "Russ P." writes: > On Nov 2, 2:54 pm, des...@verizon.net wrote: >> "Russ P." writes: >> > On Nov 1, 6:50 pm, Jason Rumney wrote: >> >> On Nov 2, 2:33 am, "Russ P." wrote: >> >> > Here is another little thing that bothers me about Emacs, and this one >> > is probably my own little pecadillo. XEmacs has a nice little pull- >> > down menu item for setting the font size directly. Emacs apparently >> > does not have that, so I have to sit and try to guess how to do it. I >> > knew a few weeks ago, but I forgot. But the point is, why should I >> > have to remember? Why not just make it simple, as in XEmacs? >> >> Options->Set Default Font. >> >> You can pick the Font, Style and Size. > > Whoops! I don't know how I missed that! > > I'm still a bit confused. If I understand it correctly, I need to > select both a font and a size. Is there a simple way to just change > the size of the existing font without having to select it in the list? > It seems that there should be. Or it should come up on the current > font automatically, but it doesn't seem to do that as far as I can > tell. I think it does come up with the current font, provided you've previously specified the font in a way it can understand. What I've been using is: (set-default-font "10x20") Emacs comes up with a menu that says "Sans" "Regular" "10" so it doesn't have a clue. 10x20 is sans, but it's also bold (although not called bold) and it's "20", not "10". When I switch to "9x15bold", it still doesn't know anything changed.