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Re: Unreadable buffer names in Emacs 23.2


From: Tim X
Subject: Re: Unreadable buffer names in Emacs 23.2
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:24:54 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Android Eve <androidev@gmx.com> writes:

> On Aug 14, 12:16 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>>
>> Most likely, a custom setting for the
>> minibuffer prompt and maybe an Xresource setting for the menu font.
>>
>
> OK - I found the offending lines in my .emacs (both statements need to
> be commented out!):
>
>      (setq default-frame-alist
>           (cons '(font . "-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-*-
> iso8859-1")
>                 default-frame-alist))
>      (set-default-font
>       "-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-*-iso8859-1")
>
> Now I need to find out why.
>

Something which may help is that if your using emacs 23 (or later), you
can probably set your font from the options menu. Try that and see if
you get a better result. Don't forget to save your options. 

The advantage of this approach is that you should only be presented with
fonts that are available or which emacs can find. It will also result in
a default face definition in your .emacs custom-faces section. You cold
then use that to define the fonts in the frame alists if you want,
however, it may not be necessary. 

Tim
-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au


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