making new frame display the same font??

making new frame display the same font??

[Fortepianissimo]

Please forgive me if I sound totally ignorant - I'm using Emacs 21 on
Mac OS X. I've set my default face in my .emacs as follows:

(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "grey95" :foreground "black"
:inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil
:underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 104 :width normal
:family "apple-monaco")))))

But the problem is whenever I hit c-x 5 2 for a new frame, the font
used in that frame reverts back to the default (larger) one.

I've been trying to find myself some tips over newsgroups and heard
something about initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist. My
initial-frame-alist is nil and here is my default-frame-alist value:

((tool-bar-lines . 0)
 (foreground-color . "black")
 (background-color . "grey95")
 (menu-bar-lines . 1))

But I have NO idea how to achieve what I want (which is a darn simple
thing I would say). Could anyone give a hint or two as to what I
should do next?

THANKS a bunch!

Re: making new frame display the same font??

[Kai Großjohann]

fortepianissimo@yahoo.com.tw (Fortepianissimo) writes:

> But the problem is whenever I hit c-x 5 2 for a new frame, the font
> used in that frame reverts back to the default (larger) one.

Try typing the following line into the *scratch* buffer:

    (frame-parameter nil 'font)

Then hit C-j at the end of the line.  This gives you a font.  Put it
into ~/.emacs like so:

    (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
                 '(font . "-long-name-with-lotsa-dashes-goes-here"))

Does it work?
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Re: making new frame display the same font??

[Fortepianissimo]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote in message news:<84znmmi6oq.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>...
> fortepianissimo@yahoo.com.tw (Fortepianissimo) writes:
> 
> > But the problem is whenever I hit c-x 5 2 for a new frame, the font
> > used in that frame reverts back to the default (larger) one.
> 
> Try typing the following line into the *scratch* buffer:
> 
>     (frame-parameter nil 'font)
> 
> Then hit C-j at the end of the line.  This gives you a font.  Put it
> into ~/.emacs like so:
> 
>     (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
>                  '(font . "-long-name-with-lotsa-dashes-goes-here"))
> 
> Does it work?

Wonderful - it works! Thank you sooo much!

On a second thought - you know where I can get a list of these
parameters? I couldn't find it when I tried. Would be helpful for
someone like me to learn a little bit more, thanks.

Re: making new frame display the same font??

[Kai Großjohann]

fortepianissimo@yahoo.com.tw (Fortepianissimo) writes:

> On a second thought - you know where I can get a list of these
> parameters? I couldn't find it when I tried. Would be helpful for
> someone like me to learn a little bit more, thanks.

The Emacs Lisp manual contains them, I think.  It will be part of
future versions of Emacs, but right now you have to download it
separately -- from ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors.
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