From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@openmailbox.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Default face - font questions.
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:30:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c07dbdfa-8e34-4e3d-937e-8efcb1848be9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EC0A6D.6030404@openmailbox.org>
> To change the default font for new (non special-display) frames...
>
> (set-face-attribute 'default t :font FONT)
>
> To change the default font for the current frame, as well as future
> frames...
>
> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font FONT)
>
> I understand how when we are in the middle of an emacs session it'd help
> to have an option to change the font only of the future-new frames.
>
> But i dont understand the difference of using the 't', or 'nil' option
> in an .init file when starting a new emacs session . Doesnt it hold than
> in that case all frames are newone making 't' superfluous in .init file?
You understand correctly. You should not notice any difference between `nil' and `t' as the value of parameter FRAME, when you use `set-face-attribute' in your init file.
(P.S. Your mailer quotes things weirdly - lots of extraneous `|' and `\|' here and there.)
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2014-08-14 1:01 Default face - font questions Alexandros Prekates
2014-08-14 14:30 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-08-14 14:46 ` Alexandros Prekates
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