From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: set-default-font Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:49:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20200825204907.GF3788@scrozzle> References: <855b886e-8bb5-caad-ebc5-4f14b7da5765@mousecar.com> <83k0xm4m34.fsf@gnu.org> <83imd64luu.fsf@gnu.org> <69cb6867-47c2-fd29-756e-9511f59fd4f2@mousecar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29052"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 22:49:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kAftG-0007QZ-2g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 22:49:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38918 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAftF-00057f-4Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60854) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kAfsi-00057I-6F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:49:24 -0400 Original-Received: from www458.your-server.de ([136.243.165.62]:57140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kAfsg-0000Ts-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from sslproxy06.your-server.de ([78.46.172.3]) by www458.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kAfsZ-0000n6-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 22:49:15 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.58.140.77] (helo=localhost) by sslproxy06.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kAfsY-000L2I-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 22:49:15 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <69cb6867-47c2-fd29-756e-9511f59fd4f2@mousecar.com> X-Authenticated-Sender: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.102.4/25910/Tue Aug 25 15:15:49 2020) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=136.243.165.62; envelope-from=2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com; helo=www458.your-server.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/08/25 16:49:15 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123766 Archived-At: On 2020-08-25 at 16:38:16 -0400, ken wrote: > Changing to: > >   (set-face-attribute > "-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard") > > errors out.  This is from *Backtrace*: Try something like this instead: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "DejaVu Sans Mono-12") You can see how to call set-face-attribute in its help page, usually accessible by C-h f set-face-attribute . -- “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” – Albert Einstein Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan