From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jesse W. Wilson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Set default font" on Windows doesn't take permanent effect Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:53:29 -0600 Message-ID: <4C368F29.80900@gmail.com> References: <87iq4po017.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278644015 28472 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2010 02:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 02:53:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 09 04:53:34 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX3iW-0001Ry-3I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:53:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58639 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OX3iV-0006D6-C5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53336 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OX3i8-0006Cr-V9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX3i7-0000gP-Jp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:55548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX3i7-0000gA-Ha for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:53:07 -0400 Original-Received: by gyf1 with SMTP id 1so1187680gyf.0 for ; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:53:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3GJezfm/o7mhl2MX2CR4cKdEQdj9ZJtSh/ITQoHHBDQ=; b=jA/3H5qTurWV8WgtSVDiM10EFGxrL+Q0PaRmw2mx3nX3hvFvUGXskSlKNLUufqtFH+ 7W93nT7VnqDGXme1dSz2e4BISW0CzgGsDmDvnebMuMXFAUeD+b5PDiG3W04yqJmKZDRE BVAbNG1cfUJQOFnpIitJ0IyAt24IrThcmjNf0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PJacfQHQT6EZJGBTOt4ggvmpSjLEjJaIz9AsZCE3cEHcKVD8OUCM9CdlguD/EB3sX7 vIh2r5nEphDADbtw4Ajje0IAEEy1HfAmc8h8pPvh+waQbbsLi11lzxbRWY/vEyV+409j dQFbH5Tg8FhqrWSFPD/9fI5GOdT1B71BejhXU= Original-Received: by 10.100.254.4 with SMTP id b4mr6054608ani.57.1278643986078; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:53:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.104] (97-118-163-234.hlrn.qwest.net [97.118.163.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k11sm4477728ani.30.2010.07.08.19.53.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:53:05 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:74152 Archived-At: Some problem with setting the default font on Win 7 here. The next time I open emacs, it forgets. On 7/8/2010 8:44 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote: > 2010/7/9 Glauber Alex Dias Prado: > >> Deniz Dogan writes: >> >> >>> I used the menu in Emacs 23.2 (on Windows 7) to set the default font >>> but it doesn't seem to have any permanent effect. Nothing about the >>> change is stored in ~/.emacs. >>> >>> Any ideas on what might be going on? >>> >> you can try changing the font as you described then M-x customize-face >> RET default RET and try saving the change, not sure if this will work >> though as i dont have a windows box to test, but it should i think. >> >> > But the "menu method" should work, so I'm just wondering if there's > something I'm doing wrong here. If this is a bug, it's a pretty > important one... > >