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- From: bashford@scripps.edu (Don &)
- Subject: Re: emacs display in X11R5
- In-Reply-To: pedersen@seas.smu.edu's message of Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:02:27 GMT
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- Organization: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- References: <1992Dec13.030227.12401@seas.smu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:33:30 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <1992Dec13.030227.12401@seas.smu.edu>, pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen) writes:
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- TP> I am using emacs 18.59.1 and having some difficulty. When I use an X
- TP> terminal (we run X11R5) my emacs window has little bitty type in it.
- TP> When I expand the window I get a bigger window but the type remains
- TP> the same very small size. Is there a way to make the emacs type size
- TP> larger? Otherwise emacs works fine in this setup.
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- In your ~/.Xdefaults file put:
- emacs.Font: lucidasanstypewriter-bold-12
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- or 14 or 18.
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- Alternatively, you could start emacs with the command line,
- emacs -font lucidasanstypewriter-bold-12
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- This is explained in the emacs man page, I think.
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- Don Bashford
- bashford@scripps.edu
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