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From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-default-font
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:49:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200825204907.GF3788@scrozzle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69cb6867-47c2-fd29-756e-9511f59fd4f2@mousecar.com>

On 2020-08-25 at 16:38:16 -0400,
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:

> Changing to:
> 
>   (set-face-attribute
> "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard")
> 
> errors out.  This is from *Backtrace*:

Try something like this instead:

    (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "DejaVu Sans Mono-12")

You can see how to call set-face-attribute in its help page, usually
accessible by C-h f set-face-attribute <RET>.

-- 
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by the laughter of the gods.” – Albert Einstein
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-25 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-25 16:54 set-default-font ken
2020-08-25 17:13 ` set-default-font Stefan Kangas
2020-08-25 18:27 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 18:32   ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 20:38     ` set-default-font ken
2020-08-25 20:49       ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE [this message]
2020-08-25 22:15         ` set-default-font ken
2020-08-26  5:44           ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27  1:59             ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-27  4:03               ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27  4:47                 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-27  8:24                   ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28  2:07                     ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-28  2:39                       ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-28  6:43                         ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 10:52                         ` set-default-font Robert Pluim
2020-08-28 23:38                           ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-29  8:37                             ` set-default-font Robert Pluim
2020-08-26  5:42         ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-26  5:40       ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii

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