From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can I ask a Simple question? Date: 11 Oct 2006 06:26:46 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1160573206.550897.75820@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <20061002172135.Q1494@serenity.region4.net> <20061003133603.M1005@serenity.region4.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160574132 21982 80.91.229.2 (11 Oct 2006 13:42:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:42:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 11 15:42:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXeKO-0004mb-Ul for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:40:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXeKO-0008OV-F3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:40:56 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1160573210 26911 127.0.0.1 (11 Oct 2006 13:26:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:26:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20061003133603.M1005@serenity.region4.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142366 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37988 Archived-At: neil wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > snipped > > > > Courier 18 > > > > > > *My Simple Question:* Please show me exactly what line i need to write > > > into a .emacs configuration file so that this font size is loaded > > > automatically each time i start up emacs? > > > > (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-24-180-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")) > > > Hello Eli, > I changed the .emacs file to what you wrote: > (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-24-180-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")) > Unfortunately, it has not worked. When i start emacs, I get this error > message: > ------------------------------- > (/usr/local/bin/emacs) > Loading tool-bar...done > Loading image...done > Loading tooltip...done > > > An error has occurred while loading `/home/neil/.emacs': > > Symbol's value as variable is void: PK Try copying your current .emacs file to another file name. Then make a new .emacs file just containing (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-outline-CourierNew-normal-r-normal-normal-24-180-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")) That should tell you if the problem you are seeing is a bug in your .emacs file or a bug in Emacs. A bug in emacs is unlikely but not impossible.