From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fredrik Staxeng Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting the font in .emacs Date: 23 Sep 2002 13:05:08 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1mlm5thspn.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032779779 28326 127.0.0.1 (23 Sep 2002 11:16:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tRCM-0007Mk-00 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:16:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tRCO-0002M0-00; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:16:20 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: news.update.uu.se Original-X-Trace: puffinus.its.uu.se 1032778502 news.update.uu.se (23 Sep 2002 12:55:02 +0100) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!puffinus.its.uu.se Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105168 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1723 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1723 Oliver Scholz writes: > hitt@eskimo.com (Dan Hitt) writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like emacs (21.2.1) to come up with a larger font than it > > does by default, and i'd like to do this by adding some command > > to my .emacs file. > > (set-face-font 'default > "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1") > > Or set it via customize: > > `M-x customize-face RET default RET' > If you use the X resource instead the font will be correct from the start, so you don't have to see Emacs resize the window. E g emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr