[TriLUG] Emacs... Pretty?

[Tanner Lovelace]

Chris,

There are several ways you can change the emacs font.
Probably the easiest is to add "-fn 10x20" (adjust as needed)
to the emacs command line.  Alternatively, you can edit the
.Xdefaults file and add a line like this:

emacs*font: 10x20

And, finally, you can add (set-frame-font "10x20") in the .emacs
file.  Any of these should do the trick.

BTW, here's a good article on customizing emacs:

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/LXF71.tut_emacs.pdf

Cheers,
Tanner

On 4/10/07, Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org> wrote:
> Every so often I am called upon to edit DocBook XML files.
>
> I like using Emacs, specifically the PSGMLX mode... Which was presented
> at TriLUG some time ago.
>
> However, after a recent reload of my Ubuntu Edgy box, Emacs defaults to
> these tiny little fonts.
>
> Now, I would like to attribute that to the superior eyesight and
> intelligence of the average Emacs user, but alas my advancing age and
> time in front of computers makes me want letters I can read.
>
> And on top of that, they're ugly.
>
> My Emacs-fu is weak.  Can someone help me with an easy way to just jack
> the font size up by a couple of points?
>
> TIA,
> CJK
>
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