From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Kaps Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: set default font - globally Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:34:10 +0200 Organization: a private linux site Message-ID: <877ilhg8il.fsf@toyland.sauerland.de> References: <873aw7sgr8.fsf@toyland.sauerland.de> <87fy07rvg6.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192891243 9758 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2007 14:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 16:40:43 2007 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 1IjFVK-0006rf-WF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjFVD-0006oQ-F0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!news.glorb.com!news.ecp.fr!news.albasani.net!lilly.ping.de!babylon.sauerland.de!klendathu.sauerland.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: toyland.sauerland.de Original-X-Trace: klendathu.sauerland.de 1192890850 16150 192.168.1.20 (20 Oct 2007 14:34:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sauerland.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:34:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BiuftRAL+fDp0+84WH1E30E/ikM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153116 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:48619 Archived-At: // 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