Re: Can you recommand some good fonts for emacs22 ?

[Harry Putnam]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>>> You can see all the xfonts available in emacs with:
>>>
>>> (x-list-fonts "*")
>>
>> What I get is only a tiny fraction of fonts on the system.
>> 12 are listed.
>
> How did you count the number of fonts found?

Captured the output of EVAL: (x-list-fonts "*")
("-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-75-75-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0" 
"-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-75-75-c-120-iso8859-1" 
"-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-100-100-c-120-jisx0201.1976-0" 
"-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--24-*-100-100-c-120-iso8859-1" 
"-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-75-75-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0" 
"-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1" 
"-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-100-100-c-80-jisx0201.1976-0" 
"-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-*-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1" 
"-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-60-koi8-r" 
"-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15" 
"-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1" 
"-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1" ...)

I guess the `...' means a whole herd was elided

>> xlsfonts shows 5681 with names beginning `^-'
>
> What is the output of:
>
> (length (x-list-fonts "*"))

> For me it is 4968.

Here it's 1287

But when the item was introduced into the thread it was presented as a way
to see `all' fonts.

Thierry V. wrote in Message-ID: <87eitdqyvg.fsf@tux.homenetwork>

 > You can see all the xfonts available in emacs with:

 > (x-list-fonts "*")

Did you mean to be used some other way than eval?

Using completion as Bernardo suggests:
> M-x set-default-font RET TAB TAB

Does appear to list them all... and with nice newlines.