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bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS an
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Christopher Dimech |
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bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances. |
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Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:45:16 +0200 |
> 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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- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Jeff B, 2021/06/15
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/15
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances.,
Christopher Dimech <=
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/16
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Christopher Dimech, 2021/06/16
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/16
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Christopher Dimech, 2021/06/17
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Jeff B, 2021/06/17
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Eli Zaretskii, 2021/06/17
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Christopher Dimech, 2021/06/17
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