emacs fonts

[daniel_I_l]

How can I get emacs to use nice, antialiased fonts? How do you control the font features (size, bold, color...) in general?
Thanks.

[RupertPupkin]

This page explains it all: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12 as my antialiased font.

[brunson]

I like my fonts blocky. ;-)

JK. Thanks for the link, Rupert.

[RupertPupkin]

Once you compile and install the Xft-enabled Emacs, you can make it look like this.

[pete_1967]

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

Once you compile and install the Xft-enabled Emacs, you can make it look like this.

Mine's prettier

On Emacs and Vim I, for some reason, prefer non anti-aliased fonts:
lucidasanstypewriter-12 on Emacs
monospace 9 on Vim

[RupertPupkin]

Originally Posted by pete_1967

On Emacs and Vim I, for some reason, prefer non anti-aliased fonts:

Aaargh, my eyes!
And the font and colors are painful too.

[daniel_I_l]

I followed the wiki and the fonts work perfectly. Thanks.

[aleph]

Anybody using this developmental version of EMACS with emacs-w3m?

I updated to EMACS 23 using the yum repo provided in the linked page at EmacsWiki, and emacs-w3m (package name "w3m-el") stopped working. I then checked-out the emacs-w3m CVS tree and built the RPMs. The CVS version works, but it hangs EMACS randomly, and to see if it's EMACS' problem I built and installed RPMs from the latest EMACS CVS tree... and the problem persists...

Guess that's the price I must pay for staying on the bleeding edge :P