From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Set default font" on Windows doesn't take permanent effect Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:58:00 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <877hl5b0qv.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87iq4po017.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291843421 6517 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 21:23:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:23:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 22:23:37 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 1PQRU8-0007yC-UX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:23:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQRU8-0005n5-6N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:23:36 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.alt.net!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e5DmAZi4RUp/oddSzPjha+9YT50= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a70ccbfc.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=LWBSU=DCcfgJ?XMfTm0i_cL?0kYOcDh@ji=VFiPm?<[ecbH:k74AA2mEEoMV90=M5ae_A3@kGf@?i Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179653 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:76039 Archived-At: Deniz Dogan writes: > 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... After setting your font with the options menu, you must then select 'Save Options' from that menu to have your changes become persistent across emacs sessions. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au