bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances.

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 6:08 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: "Jeff B" <Jeff_B.atHome@clowderHouse.net>
> Cc: 49050@debbugs.gnu.org
> Subject: bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances.
>
> > From: Jeff B <Jeff_B.atHome@clowderHouse.net>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:47:33 -0400
> > 
> > 
> > I've been using EMACS for 35 or 40 years now and EVERY DAMN TIME
> > I SWITCH SYSTEMS I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT ALL OVER AGAIN HOW TO
> > CHANGE THE DAMN FONT SIZE SO THAT IT'S BIG ENOUGH THAT I CAN
> > READ IT  *AND*  SAVE THAT SIZE SO THAT IT WILL BE THERE THE
> > NEXT TIME I START UP EMACS.  The mix of fonts with all their different
> > attributes may be fine for persons who want to play games with
> > appearance, but most of us just want to be able to set the font to be
> > the right size REGARDLESS of all the fancy colors and stuff of the
> > various modes & themes.  Yes I have used OPTIONS/SET-DEFAULT-FONT
> > and it is simple enough to increase the size there but nothing I have
> > tried on this latest system, shown below, and all prior systems, has
> > allowed me to set the size and save it so that I get it back when I
> > restart EMACS, and it makes me nuts.  All this font stuff is so complex
> > that it amounts to being a BUG for the ordinary user, especially those
> > of us who have eye troubles.  :-(
> 
> Please try putting this into your ~/.emacs:
> 
>   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 150)
> 
> (tune the value 150 to your liking).  This should work on all
> platforms, regardless of the font used for the default face.

Eli, could the default font be increased as it is really far too small.  What
would help is to put a dark background by default.  The best theme there is today
for emacs is modus-themes because it utilises contrast metrics.  I lobby for
modus-themes to be used as the default theme for emacs.
 
 
 

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