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bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS an
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances. |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:08:19 +0300 |
> 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.
- 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 <=
- bug#49050: 26.1; The INSANITY of setting a default font size in EMACS and saving it for future instances., Christopher Dimech, 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, 2021/06/16
- 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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