Comments on: Beautiful Emacs (Windows Edition)

By: boyd

boyd — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:09:15 +0000

Thanks exactly the information I needed.

On windows a simpler way to get the font name is to enter the following line in the *scratch* buffer followed by C-J. It pops-up the windows font dialog.

(w32-select-font nil t)

By: Beautiful Emacs - A Roundup of Posts « A Curious Programmer

Beautiful Emacs - A Roundup of Posts « A Curious Programmer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:32:01 +0000

[...] Bonilla wrote posts on how to prettify emacs for OS X and later on for Windows. The rather excellent EmacsW32 package is now based on a build of Emacs [...]

By: timjr

timjr — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:22:50 +0000

ob, it looks free, but it won’t install unless you have a vs license on the machine

By: Jude

Jude — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:32:25 +0000

Thanks for the emacs windows tips. I’ve always preferred the font “Bitstream Vera Sans Mono” for programming. It gives me an appealing “free” programmer’s font across all platforms.

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

Thanks,
-Jude

By: ob

ob — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:04:16 +0000

As far as I know, the link from the webpage goes to the free Consolas font pack. You don’t need a visual studio license.

By: timjr

timjr — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:43:54 +0000

BTW, in case you don’t have a visual blahdiblah license, I’ve heard that it might be possible to cabextract the powerpoint viewer and grab consolas from there…

By: ob

ob — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:17:25 +0000

Hm… if you zoom in on the pictures I posted (with ⌃ Scroll Wheel on a Mac), you can see that Inconsolata doesn’t seem to be using sub-pixel anti-aliasing at all!

By: timjr

timjr — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:19:31 +0000

Hey, funny coincidence, I was just screwing around with emacs fonts on windows a couple of days ago. :) (On my new 170 DPI display). I too found that Inconsolata is blurry on windows; I guess the hinting is wrong or doesn’t work, or windows doesn’t support cleartype on otf fonts or something… haven’t cared enough to investigate. To my great surprise, I found Courier New (not the same as regular courier!) to be much nicer than Andale Mono. Now I will have to try Consolas. Thanks!

BTW, a nice way to get the font name is something like (insert (prin1-to-string (w32-select-font)))