From: Brian McCallister <brianm@...>
Date: 2005-02-16T00:21:12+09:00
Subject: Re: (OT) Programmer's editors for the Mac

Fonts on the Cocoa port of emacs on OS X are a royal pita, basically =/

-Brian

On Feb 15, 2005, at 7:53 AM, Ruth A. Kramer wrote:

> Jarek Rzesz�tko wrote:
>> Don't forget that real programmers use Emacs ;) After installing some
>> packages it has Ruby syntax highlighing, smart indent, can run an
>> embedded Ruby interpreter, has an interface to ri and so on... Eclipse
>> with Ruby plugin and FreeRIDE are some easier alternatives and can 
>> also
>> be interesting. Vim was already mentioned...
>
> Ok, an Emacs proponent--maybe I can ask an Emacs question or two:
>
>    * How do you change the font and size in Emacs (or Xemacs)?  (One 
> big
> turnoff to Emacs for me has been that the default fonts are too small
> and ugly (not easy to read for me), and I've not found the way to 
> change
> them.
>
>    * I guess the M in various control key combinations is intended to
> stand for the Meta key--is that the Alt key?  (or, are there
> variations--for me, assume a "standard" "Windows" keyboard)
>
> thanks,
> Randy Kramer
>
>