From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mowgli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to Save a Font in Emacs Date: 16 May 2007 17:30:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1179361833.367021.169570@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <1179335712.598115.87550@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179361967 28054 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2007 00:32:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 00:32:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 17 02:32:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HoTvB-000565-Jo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 02:32:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HoU3D-0006QZ-Iv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 20:41:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.128.144.235 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1179361834 20442 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2007 00:30:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 00:30:34 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1179335712.598115.87550@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=221.128.144.235; posting-account=-HXNwg0AAADDAYolbLkw7x9oaDWGNwXB Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148464 comp.emacs:94317 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:44053 Archived-At: On May 16, 10:15 pm, kvnsm...@hotmail.com wrote: [snip] > Does anyone know > how I can save the font setting so I don't have to set my > session to that every time I enter the editor? Any information on > this would be greatly appreciated. In answers to one of my many questions, Tassilo Horn gave me this reply which worked nicely. Thanks to him: Select a nice font with xfontsel and place it in your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xressources. For example I have: ,----[ ~/.Xdefaults ] [...] | Emacs.Font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70- iso10646-1 [...] Regards, mowgli