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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Can I ask a Simple question?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:36:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3ba6pqlz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061002172135.Q1494@serenity.region4.net> (message from neil on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:31:23 GMT)

> From: neil <neil@serenity.region4.net>
> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:31:23 GMT
> 
> We all know that emacs is complicated and hard for novice users.

It's no harder than any other complex program out there.

> Especially for someone as slow as me. I have been searching the Internet
> for 3 hours and i cannot find the answer.

The Emacs manual tells you how to specify the font from the command
line.

> Courier 18
> 
> *My Simple Question:* Please show me exactly what line i need to write
> into a .emacs configuration file so that this font size is loaded
> automatically each time i start up emacs?

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-24-180-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1"))

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-02 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-02 16:31 Can I ask a Simple question? neil
2006-10-02 17:07 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-03 12:34   ` neil
2006-10-03 12:38     ` David Kastrup
2006-10-02 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.7677.1159810570.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-03 13:00   ` neil
2006-10-03 16:13     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.7702.1159892008.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-03 16:38       ` Johan Bockgård
2006-10-03 20:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-11 13:26     ` robert.thorpe
2006-10-04 19:06 ` jmg3000
2006-10-04 20:58   ` Drew Adams
2006-10-05 15:06   ` rgb
2006-10-11 12:04 ` Sam Peterson

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