From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mode-specific font setting? Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:43:20 -0600 Message-ID: References: <85241ee522fb59bebe6eeb599d39b831@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114544579 10640 80.91.229.2 (26 Apr 2005 19:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 26 21:42:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQVwd-0003aO-OM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQW2Q-0002Ke-5f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQW2A-0002KZ-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:47:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DQW29-0002KN-8i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:47:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQW29-0002EL-50 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DQW2y-0004LM-Fm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DQVtS-0003Ai-6s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:38:50 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:38:50 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:38:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <85241ee522fb59bebe6eeb599d39b831@gmail.com> 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:26066 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26066 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