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- From: dsg@blackbird.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)
- Subject: Re: emacs display in X11R5
- In-Reply-To: hollen@megatek.UUCP's message of Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:23:23 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:21:46 GMT
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- >>>>> On 13 Dec 92 03:02:27 GMT, pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen)
- >>>>> said:
-
- Ted> I am using emacs 18.59.1 and having some difficulty. When I use
- Ted> an X terminal (we run X11R5) my emacs window has little bitty
- Ted> type in it. When I expand the window I get a bigger window but
- Ted> the type remains the same very small size. Is there a way to make
- Ted> the emacs type size larger? Otherwise emacs works fine in this
- Ted> setup.
-
- The following bit of elisp should help, but ideally, just set a bigger
- default font in your .Xdefaults file or via xrdb.
-
- ;;;
- ;;; A way to change the font inside of emacs (X11)
- ;;; stolen from the net (toad@CS.CMU.EDU (Todd Kaufmann))
-
- (defun my-set-font (font)
- "Change the current font under X. Works with epoch, nemacs, or normal
- gnu-emacs."
- (if (boundp 'epoch::version) (epoch::font font) (x-set-font font)))
-
- (defun tiny () (interactive) (my-set-font "6x10"))
- (defun small () (interactive) (my-set-font "6x13"))
- (defun medium () (interactive) (my-set-font "8x13"))
- (defun big () (interactive) (my-set-font "9x15"))
- (defun normal () (interactive) (my-set-font "9x15"))
- (defun huge() (interactive) (my-set-font "10x20"))
-
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