From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandros Prekates Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Default face - font questions. Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:46:55 +0300 Message-ID: <53ECCBDF.6000607@openmailbox.org> References: <53EC0A6D.6030404@openmailbox.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408027657 11377 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2014 14:47:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:47:37 +0000 (UTC) To: Drew Adams , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 14 16:47:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XHwJG-0003QN-6t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:47:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHwJF-0006L6-Ft for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHwJ0-0006Jj-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHwIv-0008LQ-9U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.openmailbox.org ([212.129.10.237]:49917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHwIv-0008LM-0L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.openmailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4FA2E01F9; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:47:00 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=openmailbox.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type :in-reply-to:references:subject:subject:mime-version:user-agent :from:from:date:date:message-id:received; s=openmailbox; t= 1408027618; bh=p7aXxxeWzgWJGl50xEHz2JmkYOBcJ/jTdy8KGQtjL9Q=; b=R XTdKrcHgywVMH5CKVoepbGnpGoU8EApfrcckH73S+fVtpPI7WkhDk+MttHSOJEtA p+KV0AqrPEM+WD/0vrsNPXEnoH4RTtWzhgNmiCN5tct3uxk1oWK1m4QyyI6FIXFm QmpvuFliP0jkqQ+1NaKfGozr4apaK0gTutvpTwaySQ= X-Virus-Scanned: at openmailbox.org Original-Received: from mail.openmailbox.org ([212.129.10.237]) by localhost (mail.openmailbox.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id BcBi5bf2fsbW; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:46:58 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.129.10.237 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99213 Archived-At: Thanks for the affirmation! I'm an occasional emacs user but every time i come back to use it i=20 found some aspect that buffles me a littile. This time it was the=20 font-face relation. I was reading the emacswiki page i mentioned in my previous email trying=20 to figure things out. ps: for the extroneous characters . i use thuderbird , maybe its the=20 copy paste from emacswiki that wasnt done neatle? On 14/08/2014 05:30 =CE=BC=CE=BC, Drew Adams wrote: >> To change the default font for new (non special-display) frames... >> >> (set-face-attribute 'default t :font FONT) >> >> To change the default font for the current frame, as well as future >> frames... >> >> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font FONT) >> >> I understand how when we are in the middle of an emacs session it'd he= lp >> to have an option to change the font only of the future-new frames. >> >> But i dont understand the difference of using the 't', or 'nil' option >> in an .init file when starting a new emacs session . Doesnt it hold th= an >> in that case all frames are newone making 't' superfluous in .init fil= e? > You understand correctly. You should not notice any difference between = `nil' and `t' as the value of parameter FRAME, when you use `set-face-att= ribute' in your init file. > > (P.S. Your mailer quotes things weirdly - lots of extraneous `|' and `\= |' here and there.)