Re: set-default-font

[ken <gebser@mousecar.com>]

On 8/25/20 2:32 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:27:59 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>>> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:54:09 -0400
>>>
>>> In my ~/.emacs (version 27.1-1.1.x86_64, I believe) I have a function
>>> containing
>>>
>>> set-default-font "-*-*-regular-r-*-*-*-180-*-75-*-*-iso8859-1")
>> This setting is redundant, because Emacs does that by default.  I
>> suggest that you simply delete it, you shouldn't see any difference.

It's part of a larger function, so that I can change the font size
(small, medium, large) from a menu.


> Or, if you did that to get a larger font, use set-face-attribute
> instead to request a larger font without specifying it in XLFD format
> (which requires too much information you don't want to provide).
>

Changing to:

  (set-face-attribute
"-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard")

errors out.  This is from *Backtrace*:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (2 . 2) 1)
 
set-face-attribute("-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-st...")