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| -rw-r--r-- | users/sterni/emacs/init.el | 26 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/users/sterni/emacs/init.el b/users/sterni/emacs/init.el index 4cb741f62d41..5eddf8af82e1 100644 --- a/users/sterni/emacs/init.el +++ b/users/sterni/emacs/init.el @@ -3,12 +3,26 @@ (require 'use-package) (package-initialize) -;; Set default font and fallback font via set-fontset-font -(let ((mono-font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-12") - (emoji-font "Noto Color Emoji-12")) - (setq default-frame-alist `((font . ,mono-font))) - (set-frame-font mono-font t t) - (set-fontset-font t nil emoji-font)) +;; By default, Emacs only uses the default font for ASCII and then falls back to +;; fontset-default which uses random fonts (the documentation describes this +;; accurately). Emacs would be better off if it used the fallback order defined +;; by fontconfig instead of implementing its own scheme for this… +;; In any case, I've found that after setting the default font via methods like +;; (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist …), (set-face-attribute 'default …) etc. +;; it is impossible to change the fontset this font becomes part of (for ascii). +;; Specifically, the following snippet from the Emacs manual just does not seem +;; to work (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Modifying-Fontsets.html): +;; +;; (set-fontset-font "fontset-startup" nil "DejaVu Sans Mono" +;; nil 'append) +;; +;; This may very well be my ignorace, but I've found that just setting the ascii +;; and unicode charsets of fontset-startup to a generic Monospace-11 (remember +;; if we use set-face-attribute to change the font height, everything breaks!) +;; works fine. +(let ((font "Monospace-11")) + (set-fontset-font "fontset-startup" 'ascii font) + (set-fontset-font "fontset-startup" 'unicode font)) (setq inhibit-startup-message t display-time-24hr-format t |