Default face - font questions.

Default face - font questions.

[Alexandros Prekates]

In emacswiki (1) i read:

To change the default font for new (non special-display) frames, put 
either of these in your init file 
<http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InitFile#init_file>:


    |(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . | /|FONT|/ |))|

    |(set-face-attribute 'default t :font | /|FONT|/ |))|

To change the default font for the current frame, as well as future 
frames, put either of these in your init file:


    |(set-face-attribute 'default nil :font | /|FONT|/ |))|

    |(set-frame-font | /|FONT|/ |nil t)|

|
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?
|

|aprekates
|



(1) http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts

RE: Default face - font questions.

[Drew Adams]

> 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.)

Re: Default face - font questions.

[Alexandros Prekates]

Thanks for the affirmation!

I'm an occasional emacs user but every time i come back to use it i 
found some aspect that buffles me a littile. This time it was the 
font-face relation.

I was reading the emacswiki page i mentioned in my previous email trying 
to figure things out.

ps: for the extroneous characters . i use thuderbird , maybe its the 
copy paste from emacswiki that wasnt done neatle?

On 14/08/2014 05:30 μμ, Drew Adams wrote:
>> 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.)