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On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Keith wrote:

> >>>>> "os" == Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
>
>     os> (set-face-font 'default
>     os> "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1")
>
>
> That was something I had not yet found out, but actually solved one of
> my small problems. Tried it and it worked perfectly.
>
> Unfortunately I use emacs at the cli as well and this generates an
> error if emacs is started outside of X. How should it be modified to
> only apply ix X is running, there by not generating the error?

Use the variable window-system:

(when window-system (...))

Dave
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