From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Default face - font questions. Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <53EC0A6D.6030404@openmailbox.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408026658 30130 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2014 14:30:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:30:58 +0000 (UTC) To: Alexandros Prekates , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 14 16:30:51 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XHw3G-0003kN-6M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:30:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54325 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHw3F-0001Mo-NT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHw2s-0001Mb-98 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHw2j-0002pU-I4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:19858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHw2j-0002p4-BH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s7EEUEjt003482 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:30:15 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s7EEUB7o018366 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:30:14 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0019.oracle.com (abhmp0019.oracle.com [141.146.116.25]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s7EEUBbZ020486; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:30:11 GMT In-Reply-To: <53EC0A6D.6030404@openmailbox.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99212 Archived-At: > To change the default font for new (non special-display) frames... >=20 > (set-face-attribute 'default t :font FONT) >=20 > To change the default font for the current frame, as well as future > frames... >=20 > (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font FONT) >=20 > I understand how when we are in the middle of an emacs session it'd help > to have an option to change the font only of the future-new frames. >=20 > But i dont understand the difference of using the 't', or 'nil' option > in an .init file when starting a new emacs session . Doesnt it hold than > in that case all frames are newone making 't' superfluous in .init file? You understand correctly. You should not notice any difference between `nil= ' and `t' as the value of parameter FRAME, when you use `set-face-attribute= ' in your init file. (P.S. Your mailer quotes things weirdly - lots of extraneous `|' and `\|' h= ere and there.)