From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting font permanently Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:05:28 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <41584858.9020805@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096304944 23590 80.91.229.6 (27 Sep 2004 17:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 27 19:08:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CByzd-0002sq-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:08:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CBz5r-0003hp-Oj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:15:19 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de b0xTqPtsXjrdfQ/l3tg6MAbaCsiKVvMUiXqe/bGa2QoQUdrUM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!feed.ac-versailles.fr!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125558 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20914 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20914 David Escott wrote: > I can select the font I want from the Shift-Mouse1 menu, as misc 10x20. > It look like shit but it is at least readable. Talk about low standards! > Now I want to make that > permanent Options->Save Options doesn't do this?! And everything else > seems to suggest that I use xfontsel to find the font name again which > is bullshit considering that emacs has to know what font it is using to > display. So the question is how do I get emacs to display the current > font? I don't use Customize, and prefer hacking my ~/.emacs file myself -- unless I can hack my ~/.Xdefaults file instead. So how about this ~/.emacs hack: (set-default-font (face-font 'default)) -- Kevin Rodgers