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Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
 > Another thing is that when I do specify a font in my .emacs with
 > something like
 >
 > (set-face-font 'default "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO8859-1")
 >
 > I then can't run Emacs in a terminal window (i.e. starting up
 > with "emacs -nw")--I get a error "Error in init file: error:
 > "X windows are not in use or not initialized"". Assuming I do
 > eventually find a nice font, how do I use it in X without
 > screwing up my non-X sessions?

(when (eq window-system 'x)	; or better yet: (display-multi-font-p)
   (set-face-font ...))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers