From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Halliday Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I change font size in emacs? Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 14:49:32 +0100 Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030608144932.3963935d.devnull@example.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055080155 6905 80.91.224.249 (8 Jun 2003 13:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 15:49:13 2003 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 19P0Xp-0001nB-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jun 2003 15:49:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19P0Z4-0002Ln-4M for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2003 09:50:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: GNU/Linux Sylpheed Claws 0.9.0 Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.201.73 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk Original-X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1055080173 82.41.201.73 (Sun, 08 Jun 2003 13:49:33 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 13:49:33 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114289 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10783 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10783 > How do I change font size in emacs? add something like (set-default-font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1") to your ~/.emacs (assuming you're running an X server based emacs). if you are a windows user, the above form of a font definition may confuse you... if you use X, you will know that the 140 is the font size and that is what you want to edit. this is my setting, i cant remember the default font setting that emacs ships with... or you can use the config menu in emacs, but i prefer to make all changes to the .emacs Sam