Re: Mode-specific font setting?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

David Reitter wrote:
 > How do I set a mode-specific font?

You can't.  Fonts are frame-specific, not window- or mode-specific.

 > I've tried this hack:
 >
 >  (add-hook 'after-change-major-mode-hook
 >        (lambda ()
 >        (case major-mode
 >       ('text-mode
 >          (set-frame-font "fontset-lucida14")
 > )))
 > )
 >
 > Unfortunately it doesn't work, obviously because the selected frame is a
 > different one when the hook is called (find-file-other-frame was used to
 > open a file), so the font gets set in the wrong frame.

It also won't change the font when you select a buffer in a different
mode with `C-x b'.

 > Maybe there is a more elegant way (customization?) than using a hook,
 > anyways.

Use after-make-frame-functions, and make each frame's initial window
dedicated to that buffer for good measure.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers