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 16:56:48 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87bpahb0sv.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291844706 12942 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 21:45:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:45:06 +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 22:45:02 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 1PQRoq-0002M6-QJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:45:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQRoq-000898-2C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:45:00 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!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: sha1:9nninGA4knHAzHxQISEXv2SVxzU= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a70ccbfc.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=LWBSU=DCcfg3i\; U\i>iJhL?0kYOcDh@ji=VFiPm?<[ecbH:k74AA2mEEoMV90=M5ae_A3@kGf@?i Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179652 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:76069 Archived-At: Glauber Alex Dias Prado writes: > 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. > Note that after making any changes in the options menu, you must also save those changes to have them persist across sessions. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au