From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "dericbytes@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font at startup Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 05:09:17 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8d1ceb46-a8c0-4701-894b-3ed85d2a5ca0@q11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236351618 19811 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2009 15:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 15:00:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 06 16:01:35 2009 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 4.50) id 1LfbYM-00033u-6u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:01:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38602 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LfbX0-0000Fz-Vv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:00:11 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.10.67.62 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1236344957 22971 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2009 13:09:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.10.67.62; posting-account=lWCYjAoAAAD13Fx4x0JbFUmayOpl-DWA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167381 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:58:12 -0500 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:62684 Archived-At: > How can I have emacs startup with the font that you can select from > > options > set font > misc, 8x13 > Once you've used the GUI to select your font. ; Move to scratch C-x C-b *scratch* ; Type the following, it gets the current font value (frame parameter nil 'font) ; Execute the above emacs function -With cursor after last bracket C-j ; Open your initial emacs file ( or where ever you want to put it) C-x C-f ~/.emacs ; Add the following, changing the font as appropriate. (set-default-font "-outline-Arial-normal-italic-normal-sans-16-*-*-*-p- *-iso8859-1") ; Save C-x C-s