From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to save setup of default font? Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:09:40 +0300 Message-ID: <834m7yhpi3.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468073439 24721 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2016 14:10:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 14:10:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 09 16:10:27 2016 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 1bLsxd-0001mk-Ra for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:10:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLsxc-0005BN-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47455) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLsx7-0005BH-O1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLsx3-0004Du-GB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLsx3-0004Do-Ca for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1738 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bLsx1-00086j-Ac for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:09:47 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from =?utf-8?B?Q3PDoW55aSBQw6Fs?= on Sat, 9 Jul 2016 15:11:38 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110747 Archived-At: > From: Csányi Pál > Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 15:11:38 +0200 > > I do `S-down-mouse-1’ to see the font and fontset menu > and here I click on: > Change Text Font > Misc > lucidasanstypewriter-12. This doesn't change the default font, it only changes the font used to display the current buffer. > But when I close Emacs with C-X C-C and after that I start Emacs > again, I must to set this font again. As expected. > I tried this too: > from graphical menu choose: > Options > Set Default Font > Misc > lucidasanstypewriter-12 > and after that from graphical menu choose: > Options > Save Options > > but that does not help to keep this setting after close and reopen Emacs. This does work for me in Emacs 24.5, so maybe you started Emacs with "emacs -Q" or something. Otherwise, when you click "Save Options", you should see a message in the echo area saying that your .emacs file was saved, and the new setting should be recorded there.