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From: Sebastian Kaps <seb@toyland.sauerland.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set default font - globally
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:34:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ilhg8il.fsf@toyland.sauerland.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2347.1192883207.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

// Sean Sieger writes:

> When is `merge' preferrable over the default `-load'?  And yes, this
> question after reading the manpage.

Merge adds new values to the already existing ones, replacing old values
if necessary. Load drops all old values and only adds the ones from the
specified file. If you use different files to set X resources, you
usually don't want "-load".

-- 
Ciao, Sebastian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-20 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19  7:30 set default font - globally Sebastian Kaps
2007-10-19  8:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-10-19 13:36 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-10-19 15:42   ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-10-19 15:11 ` Amy Templeton
2007-10-20 12:26   ` Sean Sieger
2007-10-20 14:17     ` Peter Dyballa
2007-10-20 14:55     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2347.1192883207.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-20 14:34     ` Sebastian Kaps [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.2288.1192784299.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-19 16:58   ` Sebastian Kaps
2007-10-19 19:44     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2330.1192823101.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-19 21:28       ` Sebastian Kaps
2007-10-19 21:48         ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2331.1192830539.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-19 22:29           ` Sebastian Kaps

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