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: Setting fonts in new frames Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:26:06 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1167852469 22864 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2007 19:27:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 19:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 03 20:27:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H2Blz-00067b-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:27:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Bly-0008B5-Si for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:27:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Blk-0008Au-JC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Blj-0008Ab-9c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Blj-0008AX-3c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H2Bli-0004t0-5o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:27:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H2BlO-0005sx-6j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:27:02 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:27:02 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:27:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: 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:40126 Archived-At: Ewen Cartwright wrote: > I set the font for my emacs sessions (ntemacs-22) in my .emacs file > thus: > > (set-default-font "-*-Lucida Sans > Typewriter-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-*-iso8859-1") > > Which works fine. But every time I open a new frame I get plain old > Courier. I've looked for frame-opening hooks where I can run > set-default-font to get my own font choice in them but nothing I've > tried seems to work. Anyone know how I can achieve this? (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-*-Lucida Sans Typewriter-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-*-iso8859-1")) -- Kevin