From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ewen Cartwright" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Setting fonts in new frames Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:00:10 -0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167847904 5357 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2007 18:11:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 03 19:11:41 2007 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 1H2AaO-0006bv-W8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:11:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2AaO-0002Fy-Ee for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:11:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H27bD-0005ib-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H27bC-0005hY-0e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H27bB-0005hT-Ts for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.153.172.3] (helo=mail.abcam.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H27bB-0007jR-Ge for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:00:13 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Setting fonts in new frames Thread-Index: AccvR9z4+up8D399TTmxCCtK/S2ADA== Original-To: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:11:24 -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:40125 Archived-At: Hi all, I set the font for my emacs sessions (ntemacs-22) in my .emacs file thus: (set-default-font "-*-Lucida Sans Typewriter-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-*-iso8859-1") Which works fine. But every time I open a new frame I get plain old Courier. I've looked for frame-opening hooks where I can run set-default-font to get my own font choice in them but nothing I've tried seems to work. Anyone know how I can achieve this? TIA, /ewen