From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: default font used Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:43:14 -0700 Message-ID: <1E6F7B98C4D643AB92E9BC7CAA3C05D8@us.oracle.com> References: <6b6982ca-49a5-4cc8-b8ae-49c7b1feb434@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341935025 20327 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2012 15:43:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:43:45 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Jason Rumney'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 10 17:43:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SocbF-00013z-6p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:43:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SocbE-0007B6-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55737) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Socb4-0007AX-Ts for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Socay-0002tI-Cu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:29632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Socay-0002t7-6O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q6AFhKqc023421 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:43:20 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q6AFhJr5015973 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:43:19 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt102.oracle.com (abhmt102.oracle.com [141.146.116.54]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q6AFhJtB011778; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.219.189) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:43:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <6b6982ca-49a5-4cc8-b8ae-49c7b1feb434@googlegroups.com> Thread-Index: Ac1esZvQTxV8kLzNQZ2z9RSr3MlxdQAAJfAg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85765 Archived-At: > The default font is chosen inside x_default_font_parameter in > xfns.c.... the first match from the following list is used: > ... > "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1", > "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1", > "-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1", > /* This was formerly the first thing tried, but it finds > too many fonts and takes too long. */ > "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1", > /* If those didn't work, look for something which will > at least work. */ > "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1", > "fixed", Yes, but a user can set the font to use by default. See this: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts E.g.: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font FONT) (Alternatively, you can set the `font' parameter in user option `default-frame-alist'.)