From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting default font Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:18:02 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <49744922$0$1874$9b536df3@news.fv.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232383276 27428 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2009 16:41:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:41:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 17:42:28 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 1LOxCf-00012T-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:42:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOxBO-00030e-VQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:41:02 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX197B9Yrbpe4dDBrmCpOgbiZZqYcER92850kEcfuYRfKqriLxytgRi2bmtc5kLU/QLnC/P/uBw/BwlNO2mRDeeyCCV6O8XEn/oV2p6fSHq08x1qx0uKv7UIF/I7b06TScJS4Kl4j72XIgQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:18:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19cvzc79HMQ6s7NnJBbvq5tV08SZxzNFZ1Lrfwqyuillg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:vJzrjxmAMiwN26OyxwrmI30V4Dc= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166147 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:61471 Archived-At: Juha Nieminen writes: > I'm using emacs 22.3.1 in a MacOS X system. Each time I start emacs > I select from the Options menu Set Font/Fontset... > Courier > 14 > > What would be the magic command to put in .emacs for this to always > happen automatically on startup? I set my font in a special .xEmacs file which I include into my .Xresources e.g .Xresources: ,---- | #include "./.emacs.d/.xEmacs" `---- .xEmacs: ,---- | Emacs*font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-12-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 | Emacs.toolBar: off | Emacs.menu: on | Emacs.foreground: wheat | Emacs.background: darkslategrey | Emacs.pointerColor: Grey | Emacs.cursorColor: LightGray | Emacs.borderColor: black `---- It is much faster on my system than setting with a call to set-default-font. -- important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970