From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: B Smith-Mannschott Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set the font to standard 16 dot medium Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:37:48 +0200 Message-ID: <28c656e20905140437g4661fea7i33161536c9149d2a@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A0BF73B.6000400@cdotb.ernet.in> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242301379 3458 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2009 11:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs help To: asd@cdotb.ernet.in Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 14 13:42:50 2009 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 1M4ZKr-00031T-K7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 13:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M4ZKq-00075T-UB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 07:42:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4ZG7-0006KK-4V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 07:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M4ZG2-0006IV-GL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 07:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48983 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M4ZG2-0006IQ-7z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 07:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.184]:7010) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M4ZG1-0006ta-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 07:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id z23so527464fkz.10 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 04:37:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=49SkUu3nvC3HB5Sd47umgmVAR3QipeFNhTAYtRlzJ1g=; b=YG9MgcPAUEWT+YigViOQxNA3EfGZmSpLa7MbggrKmCXfGozv/tIIjNPiH2XYKUD8b1 KYyH7qH79OpxFOrUjhv251SjAfzy2IyDjgcGrn+OQ3he6nlhEE/cyQ5vuh982Sk27yS9 eFcjO4zDylIqGo4U9PKZfUPBUmrHr9IvP3MjQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Onj67Kq/FFkdChnA+MLvC00sPXFgqS5ZUS3QTh14YOpQte09kKuYkVXU5/S/RbVcXC njoY9ZANIZ4FFvDt4LRICvq/gcsDCQeVQjUQIYl/kK04MteJvztSLdGd9Oz4Dbo/NBv4 2LaFnMKBE2VU2JjM4WRgQQjaUQZMN5BE55P00= Original-Received: by 10.223.127.8 with SMTP id e8mr1525897fas.95.1242301068026; Thu, 14 May 2009 04:37:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A0BF73B.6000400@cdotb.ernet.in> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:64420 Archived-At: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:49, Anand Dhanakshirur wrot= e: > Hi, > I am using standard 16 dot medium. > right now i am selecting it from Font menu(by clicking =C2=A0left button = of mouse > when shift key is pressed in scratch buffer). > I don't want to do it every time, i start emacs. > What to add in .emacs file.? If you're running under X11 (some random unix, linux, bsd, ...) you can set this in your Xresources. I used to do this in my .emacs, but the Xresources solution works better for me. When I set it in .emacs, has already sized its first window before it finds out what font to use and this interacts poorly with some window managers. More detail in the first answer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/623748/how-do-i-get-my-emacs-to-always-u= se-6x13-on-x11 // ben