From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 26.3, 28; Set Default Font... CMU Typewriter Text Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:32:43 +1100 Organization: Two Times Acquitted BMF Prizefighter 'Unimpeachable President' Trump 2020 Keep America Great =?utf-8?B?yZnJmTBA?= Ultimat Fighting Cybr Message-ID: References: <83o8uook0k.fsf@gnu.org> <83h80goh05.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="116494"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KVWdy5ARccHGHKEcgq9STek2OEA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 12 11:34:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j1pLI-000U7v-8J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:34:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35058 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j1pLH-0002Kc-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:34:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j1pKx-0002KJ-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:33:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j1pKw-0007Yz-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:33:43 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:51004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j1pKw-0007Wv-Ab for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:33:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j1pKt-000TVr-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:33:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122402 Archived-At: >> (custom-set-faces >> '(default ((t (:background "gainsboro" :foreground "black" :height >> 201 :family "CMU Typewriter Text" :foundry "nil" :slant normal >> :weight light :width normal))))... > > With this, I see no reason for you to mess with Emacs.FontBackend in > .Xdefaults. (However, I suggest to use :font in the customization > instead of relying on :family.) That :family keyword in that line is controlled by the M-x customize interface inserting to the Emacs's initial configuration setup file... well, anyway, I had hoped to learn something about the UTF-8 and Unicode by messing with Emacs.FontBackend in .Xdefaults. But it wasn't the original driving intent. I only wanted to get a better looking font and not the particularly ugly default in scarey quote in emacs-28 build 2020-01-05. plan9port/font/sample from http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html That file sampling various languages displays relatively immediately. Like under 2.0 seconds. I don't experience the delay like waiting for 4Gb to transfer before a file with multiple languages displays. -- OK. I got a good idea. Who is the fastest will win. Boeing. SpaceX. Go...