Emacs + Mac OSX and changing the default font

Question

how can I change the default font on Monaco with antialiasing on Emacs 23. Where can I find a dedicated binary for Emacs 23.1 for cocoa with anti-virus font settings?

Answer 1

You can set the font faces using: Mx customize-faces and enter default when prompted Customize face (...): There will be an Save for Future Sessions option that will be written to your custom.el file, so the face will be set to the following run emacs once.

There are two common distributions

• Carbon Emacs (The Traditional)
• Aquamacs (The more Mac you like)

Both are excellent binary distributions.

Answer 2

Another question regarding Emacs and Mac OS fonts : How do I install fonts in Emacs for Mac?

It was easier for me to add something like this to init.el

  (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Inconsolata" :height 145 :weight 'normal) 

Answer 3

I grabbed the OS X Emacs binaries from http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/ .

You can find the default font settings in Mx customize , and then once in the settings menu, you follow this path: -> Faces -> Basic Faces -> Default .

Answer 4

If you have xcode installed, you can create emacs yourself, and ant aliased monaco is used as the default font.