From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elias Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newbie questions: customizing continuation lines and font for Windows emacs Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9a2e52e5-4134-4755-8852-107d0aaa8070@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <7b7c8b44-05f4-4e6d-889f-613829e57ecf@p2g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237268399 19261 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 05:39:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:39:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 06:41:16 2009 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 1LjS38-0005p0-OE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:41:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjS1m-0008QW-Aw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:39:50 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.122.206 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1237223352 12594 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2009 17:09:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.122.206; posting-account=mvKtWgoAAAD7dDV0ajF5AqkW4k3_GaD8 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167687 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:26:13 -0400 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:62988 Archived-At: What do you mean by "initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist"? Is that a command or a setting or something? On Mar 14, 4:18=A0am, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 14.03.2009 um 00:09 schrieb Elias: > > > Also, I am trying to change the display font. I go to Options and Set > > Font, and pick the font (Lucida Sans Typewriter), then go to Options > > and Save Options, hoping that the font will be saved. However, the > > next time I start emacs, it is set to Courier New for some reason. Is > > there any way to save the font? > > You can use initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist as in: > > =A0 =A0(setq initial-frame-alist '( > ;=95 =A0 =A0 =A0(font . "fontset-global") > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(tool-bar-lines =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 . 0) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(menu-bar-lines =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 . 2) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(border-color =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 . "gold1") > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(cursor-color =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 . "turquoise1") > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(mouse-color =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0. "purple3") > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(foreground-color =A0 =A0 =A0 . "DarkCyan") > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(background-color =A0 =A0 =A0 . "antiquewhite1") > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(vertical-scroll-bars =A0 . right) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(internal-border-width =A0. 5) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(top =A0. 10) (left . 625) (width . 80) (height . 50) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0)) > > Of course you need to uncomment and substitute the values on the =A0 > first and second lines. And others too ... > > -- > Greetings > > =A0 =A0Pete > > To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists =A0 > solutions > are things that are still all mixed up.