Rather than using 'default-frame-alist', I have in my .emacs file:
(set-foreground-color "green")
(set-background-color "black")
(set-cursor-color "gray")
(set-frame-font "Consolas 10" t)
Note that the way that Emacs deals with fonts changed with 23, so some
of the old stuff no longer works. I suspect that there are similar
functions for setting your other preferences. Also, you may want to
choose a typeface other than 'Consolas' -- I chose it since it was the
fixed-pitch san-serif typeface with the most flexibility (on my system)
regarding point size, boldness, and italicness. ('Courier New' also has
a wide range; however, I don't particularly care for this face.)
-jp
andy.l...@quantel.com wrote:
I have just updated to the latest emacs 23.1.1 from 21.3 on WinXP and I'm
trying to make things as familiar as I can.
In general everything works just fine, the only problem I have noticed is
the speed of response to key presses. If I hold down the cursor key the
cursor sticks and jumps half a page at a time rather than a line at a
time.
I have tracked down the reason for this to the font I am using. I have
been using the 6X13 font since it was posted here several years ago. If I
make this my default font, then the response of emacs becomes very
sluggish.
My .emacs has the lines
(setq default-frame-alist '((height . 66) (width . 114)
(menu-bar-lines . 1)
(cursor-color . "red")
(scroll-bar-width . 11)
(top . 72) (left . 1500)
(font .
"-*-6X13-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1")
))
Commenting out the "font" line makes it all work at full speed.
So is this a problem with emacs or the font? And what is the best way to
get emacs to either use this font or a similar one without suffering the
slow response?
Thanks for any help
Andy Ling
