* Default face - font questions.
@ 2014-08-14 1:01 Alexandros Prekates
2014-08-14 14:30 ` Drew Adams
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From: Alexandros Prekates @ 2014-08-14 1:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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
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* RE: Default face - font questions.
2014-08-14 1:01 Default face - font questions Alexandros Prekates
@ 2014-08-14 14:30 ` Drew Adams
2014-08-14 14:46 ` Alexandros Prekates
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From: Drew Adams @ 2014-08-14 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexandros Prekates, help-gnu-emacs
> 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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* Re: Default face - font questions.
2014-08-14 14:30 ` Drew Adams
@ 2014-08-14 14:46 ` Alexandros Prekates
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From: Alexandros Prekates @ 2014-08-14 14:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams, help-gnu-emacs
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.)
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