Q1) How to enable Emacs keybindings? R1: Insert gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" in your ".coqiderc" file. It may be in the current dir or in $HOME dir. Q2) How to change the default font ? R2) Insert style "default" { font_name = "Monospace 14" } class "GtkTextView" style "default" in your .coqiderc file. See Q1. You may replace Monospace 14 by anything reasonable describing a font. For example "Sans bold 22". See Pango Font Descriptions for more informations (http://www.pango.org/). Q3) How to enable antialiased fonts? R3) Set the GDK_USE_XFT variable to 1.