From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Diepenmaat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: defining default face Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:03:18 +0200 Organization: Zeekat Softwareonwikkeling Message-ID: <873akampe1.fsf@zeekat.nl> References: <48C52051.8010307@tqtvd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220902853 7573 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2008 19:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 21:41:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcmcE-0006hR-0k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:41:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcmbE-0003Ks-4V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABgAAAAwBAMAAAD5pqeQAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAABhQTFRF URgKoyIAmTMXqF5KuYl7y6ui4NDM+/r4zJNdmwAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAACxMAAAsT AQCanBgAAAAHdElNRQfXDBIUAgGiEa2aAAABYUlEQVQoz02SvXaDMAyF3aHdZegD2PxkJhQ8J4R6 juGUuZDUe43R61eGJA0D8B1dXV0LGCJaDDePyOjZBtT9MgSYbIu+UpNl2A+/ukPXfNUku2ROdWhM 99myqzWX3Czp8dhY1n+MfWau+X4fZGNZpecuSwpFMHOZnpskFppgEaksGs5lFoYeYilOEMkjzcGC CzjxJJoowZIAQMPhfdYEecGhBFCOwO9GKkFkXZDtfIAax2C9wwKAWzwFyPGwQrXCIkimbzAHeFtl Ts0vJHvFkRI01ssVwpyMAoHkGmfFqL+TEmSNXjHMXeiHZAjZqjOsVxxSV8UG3Fi2ZGID2Fs2t7d3 6mLTdIdUM+PuECvW/T6gfobnSqTY+DDgmrnmATSnfMiQrTvcDOikyT1OWHxZPIF8As8P/waOjzdn IGt+vRVgYD7CrakFTSfFbwAB0Y+ghWj0IjP0Scz6I2E3zIlFb/8AfR6DwKVgwNYAAAAASUVORK5C YII= Cancel-Lock: sha1:H3C2oC4xwpP56jHsGnl/UBeKnBs= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.126.3.69 Original-X-Trace: 1220900625 news.xs4all.nl 194 [::ffff:80.126.3.69]:41580 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161999 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57341 Archived-At: Allan Gottlieb writes: > At Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:53:37 -0300 Rodrigo Canellas wrote: > >> I used 'set-default-font' to choose >> "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1", but I >> do not know how to edit '.emacs' to make it permanent... could anyone >> help me? > > The simplest way is probably to use .Xresources (assuming you are > using X). Mine is > > *Term*font2: 10x20 > *Emacs*font: -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 > *Emacs*menuBar: off > *Emacs*toolBar: 0 FWIW, I found that my CVS builds (23.0.60) I need to switch on XFT explicitly or else it won't use anti-aliasing for the ttf fonts. >From my .Xresources: Emacs*font: Inconsolata-13 Emacs.FontBackend: xft -- Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/