EMACS font problems

Stephen J. Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 17:44:13 UTC 2006


On 1/12/06, McBroom, Robert C <McBroomRC at oro.doe.gov> wrote:
>
> Since the changes to modular X, EMACS uses a humongous font.  The font for
> the buffer can be set from the options menu but saving the change does not

I havent seen this problem with fonts on a fresh system.. so I am
guessing it might be a setting already in your .emacs file or a .font
setting. The standard tests are to creat a new user and see if they
get ginormous fonts also.

> make it permanent.  The 6x13 fixed font works well for displaying the 133
> character line printer output from classic scientific programs on a
> 1280x1024 screen.  I can't find a selection to change the font for the menu.
>  Apparently that would require getting into the lisp files.  Where is the
> missing link?
>
>
> Robert McBroom
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