From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting default font name Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 17:11:49 -0400 Message-ID: <87a9aezt9m.fsf@bach.histomat.net> References: <87egzrz5c2.fsf@bach.histomat.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400447728 22704 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2014 21:15:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 21:15:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 18 23:15:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wm8QP-0006Qn-5y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 May 2014 23:15:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wm8QO-00088V-DQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 May 2014 17:15:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 16:11:51 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jz5aT7YLX3c8KxwuH+zS2wZ+5WM= Original-Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-WF9aucmrJiKCr5AliEJ2MXnCKr6KeNod/GWhl4liJYPKu+LS+yXlOJs716eg622rg8gEQ9TlPuLCHpF!eiNj4ZQtwGgzHUQ2XZBmtMN08zATUlKGhG5eQJa/oThQmTXjuvy2lWEjCAM= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1607 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205471 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97740 Archived-At: Drew, copying and pasting your suggested lisp into my init file produced the same error: "Symbol's value as variable is void: default-font" Here's what I copied, taken from the init file paste: (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-bitstream-Courier 10 Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")) (set-face-attribute 'default t :font "-bitstream-Courier 10 Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1") Haines