Re: Visual font looping setup

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-11-21 10:20]:
> > S-mouse-1 opens up same dialog.
> 
> I guess the toolkit which you used to build Emacs doesn't have a
> well-designed font selection dialog.

Thank you.

Then it is it, I use Lucid version as it occupies less space in
general than GTK.

> Yes.  If your Emacs was built with GTK, x-select-font should start a
> GTK font selection dialog showing many fonts.
> 
> Of course, you can always write a simple command that loops over all
> the fonts in the list created by this:
> 
       (x-list-fonts "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" 'default 
(selected-frame))

> and display some sample text using each font.  Or just looks at the
> list returned by the above, and try some of the fonts manually (with
> set-frame-font or somesuch).

Then I will  use that.