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I love emacs, and although I have long tried switching to other editors (I am fairly determined to use web based applications only, brackets is getting close) I

I love emacs, and although I have long tried switching to other editors (I am fairly determined to use web based applications only, brackets is getting close) I havent been able to replace it yet. However its the only application I didnt know how to copy and paste in when I started using it, its still the only application I use that I dont know how to resize the text in. It would be kinda nice to see people work on those type of things.

jadyoyster 13y ago
C-x C-+ increases font size, C-x C-- decreases font size if that's what you were looking for.
- daleharvey 13y ago
  Heh C-+ / C-- actually work, at least in my emacsforosx, have no idea when that started working, but nice, one complaint off my list, but its not hard to imagine many more to make emacs more user friendly
  - ordinary 13y ago
    Note that these keys zoom, they don't change the font size. Useful for displaying, not useful if you're looking to export or print text.
    - FedRegister 13y ago
      Well, yeah. The whole point of a text editor it to edit plain text.
gcv 13y ago
Try this: (defun set-font (font-family height) (interactive "sFont family: \nnHeight: ") (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family font-family :height height) (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'unicode font-family)) Then, if you have the right font installed, the following will work: (set-font "Monaco" 140) ; for 14-pt Monaco or, e.g., (set-font "Anonymous" 120) ; for 12-pt Anonymous (M-x set-font also works.)
hollerith 13y ago
It's got a very nice way of handling text size and other text "attributes". All the various kinds ("faces") of text are arranged in an inheritance hierarchy, so a change in the size of the text in the base of the hierarchy propagates to all of the text in the application (minus the size of the text in the title bar, which is of course controlled by the operating system). So for example, to make all Emacs text (except the title-bar text) pretty darn big, you just eval the following: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 200)
pseut 13y ago
> However its the only application I didnt know how to copy and paste in when I started using it, its still the only application I use that I dont know how to resize the text in. Ah, you must have never tried vim. :)
- daleharvey 13y ago
  heh good point, 'use' in this context means more than the brief panic on a new machine when I remember :wq and add export EDITOR=emacs to my profile
Figs 13y ago
> I am fairly determined to use web based applications only That sounds really unpleasant to me. Why on earth would you want to do that?
- daleharvey 13y ago
  Because I likely dont think the things you relate to web software being unpleasant are inherent to the actual platform and can be fixed, both by 3rd parties producing better web based software and by the platforms themselves being fixed. That combined with the advantages of having a single, cross platform runtime platform that is shared as opposed to owned as being too important to ignore, I think its silly that people have to consider writing the same app 3 times at a minimum to reach a reasonable portion of the audience.
  - Figs 13y ago
    My biggest issue with web apps is that I don't have control of the software -- someone else can unilaterally decide to change the interface or functionality from day to day. (GMail is an example of a case that regularly irritates me by doing this.) While I appreciate what you're saying about a common, open runtime being valuable -- I've considered using a self-contained, special purpose browser as the GUI for a project before myself -- I feel like web apps give users less freedom ultimately. Even in the worst case proprietary desktop app with nasty DRM, I could resort to reverse engineering the executable on my machine to find out what it does if I really had to; as soon as you move the computation to a remote server, you're totally at the whim of the operator for the continued ability to even access the program. Edit: Removed redundant phrasing.
    - icebraining 13y ago
      Seems like Firefox OS' packaged web apps (shipped as a zip file) solves those issues without losing the common runtime benefits. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Publishing/Packaged_Apps https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Publishing/Packaged...

jadyoyster 13y ago

C-x C-+ increases font size, C-x C-- decreases font size if that's what you were looking for.

daleharvey 13y ago
Heh C-+ / C-- actually work, at least in my emacsforosx, have no idea when that started working, but nice, one complaint off my list, but its not hard to imagine many more to make emacs more user friendly
- ordinary 13y ago
  Note that these keys zoom, they don't change the font size. Useful for displaying, not useful if you're looking to export or print text.
  - FedRegister 13y ago
    Well, yeah. The whole point of a text editor it to edit plain text.

gcv 13y ago

Try this: (defun set-font (font-family height) (interactive "sFont family: \nnHeight: ") (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family font-family :height height) (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'unicode font-family)) Then, if you have the right font installed, the following will work: (set-font "Monaco" 140) ; for 14-pt Monaco or, e.g., (set-font "Anonymous" 120) ; for 12-pt Anonymous (M-x set-font also works.)

hollerith 13y ago

It's got a very nice way of handling text size and other text "attributes". All the various kinds ("faces") of text are arranged in an inheritance hierarchy, so a change in the size of the text in the base of the hierarchy propagates to all of the text in the application (minus the size of the text in the title bar, which is of course controlled by the operating system). So for example, to make all Emacs text (except the title-bar text) pretty darn big, you just eval the following: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 200)

pseut 13y ago

> However its the only application I didnt know how to copy and paste in when I started using it, its still the only application I use that I dont know how to resize the text in. Ah, you must have never tried vim. :)

daleharvey 13y ago
heh good point, 'use' in this context means more than the brief panic on a new machine when I remember :wq and add export EDITOR=emacs to my profile

Figs 13y ago

> I am fairly determined to use web based applications only That sounds really unpleasant to me. Why on earth would you want to do that?

daleharvey 13y ago
Because I likely dont think the things you relate to web software being unpleasant are inherent to the actual platform and can be fixed, both by 3rd parties producing better web based software and by the platforms themselves being fixed. That combined with the advantages of having a single, cross platform runtime platform that is shared as opposed to owned as being too important to ignore, I think its silly that people have to consider writing the same app 3 times at a minimum to reach a reasonable portion of the audience.
- Figs 13y ago
  My biggest issue with web apps is that I don't have control of the software -- someone else can unilaterally decide to change the interface or functionality from day to day. (GMail is an example of a case that regularly irritates me by doing this.) While I appreciate what you're saying about a common, open runtime being valuable -- I've considered using a self-contained, special purpose browser as the GUI for a project before myself -- I feel like web apps give users less freedom ultimately. Even in the worst case proprietary desktop app with nasty DRM, I could resort to reverse engineering the executable on my machine to find out what it does if I really had to; as soon as you move the computation to a remote server, you're totally at the whim of the operator for the continued ability to even access the program. Edit: Removed redundant phrasing.
  - icebraining 13y ago
    Seems like Firefox OS' packaged web apps (shipped as a zip file) solves those issues without losing the common runtime benefits. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Publishing/Packaged_Apps https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Publishing/Packaged...