Re: [ELPA] Add new 'show-font' package?

[Philip Kaludercic]

Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Thu,  5 Sep 2024 10:18:50 +0000
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>> Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:
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>> A few comments on the code here:
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> Thank you, Philip! I will incorporate those.

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>> Some general comments:  It would be nice to have a command to select a
>> font.
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> You mean to select a font to preview? This can be done, for sure, though
> I will need to decouple the preview/presentation from the file-visiting
> part. In other words, the user selects a font and then we do
> 'set-face-attribute' of its family across the buffer that we generate.
> This way, we do not need to know where the font is installed and to
> visit that file (though that is fine as well).

Is it not possible to look up file name of the font one selects using
e.g. `completing-read' and opening that with show-font?

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