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Re: Some developement questions


From: hw
Subject: Re: Some developement questions
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 03:11:08 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> hw wrote:
>> My first step with 'emacs -q' would be to make the menu fonts larger.
>> As much as I like monospace fonts, the typewriter font used for the text
>> was *really ugly* even 30 years ago.  One look at Emacs with this font
>> might turn most people away before they start reading anything.
>
> This matches my perception too, when I show Emacs to students. Emacs
> starts up in monospace font and that looks sooooo 1980s.

not really

I don't mean to say that there's something wrong with monospace fonts.
I prefer them for most things because they're monospace.

We should ask a designer for some ideas about how to make Emacs look
better.



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