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Asked: 2026-05-10T13:56:33+00:00

I’ve recently had a need to do a bit of lisp editing and I

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I’ve recently had a need to do a bit of lisp editing and I found the nifty Ready Lisp package for OS X, which is great, except Aquamacs automatically uses a proportional font (which is idiotic, IMHO) and I want to change it to a monospace font. However, I’m not really much of an EMACS user, and the preferences menu in Aquamacs is less than clear on where and how one might make such a change.

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  1. This is what I have in my .emacs for OS X:

    (set-default-font '-apple-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-mac-roman')

    Now, I’m not sure Bitstream Vera comes standard on OS X, so you may have to either download it or choose a different font. You can search the X font names by running (x-list-fonts 'searchterm') in an ELisp buffer (e.g. *scratch* – to run it, type it in and then type C-j on the same line).

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