Re: setting default font name

[Hans BKK <hansbkk@gmail.com>]

Haines Brown wrote:
> I finally am able to open an emacs session that relies on 

> **a custom init file** using the -q -l options 

>by setting the font in a session that is started without the -q option, and then save that font to its init file. Then I can copy that material to the init file used with the -q option.


There seem to be a lot of issues around the specific font issue, functions used, syntax etc that would be great to get isolated and correct solution posted FFR.


However I want to also point out the more general issue that you appear to not have completely absorbed from my and Drew's posts above - see my emphasis above.

By launching with the -q option you are 

  A) instructing Emacs to launch without ANY init file at all, even if you then also load a script to be eval'd with the -l option - this is NOT the same as loading an init file. 

And

  B) explicitly instructing Emacs to NOT save any configuration changes made through the Customize facility - as you are informed by a warning message at startup.


Launching instances of emacs either via another user's session or by scripting a different $HOME folder before launching emacs as in the thread I pointed out above is IMO a more straightforward way to test most config/init issues with clean slate to troubleshoot interference from other packages/scripts normally loaded in your production setup.