calling set-face-font in the .gun-emacs (aka .emacs)

calling set-face-font in the .gun-emacs (aka .emacs)

[Hattuari]

I've concluded that I am virtually immune to Lisp.  I spent the last hour
trying to figure out how to call set-face-font so that the default face
font is -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--20-140-100-100-m-110-iso8859-15.  I
finally went to M-x customize-faces and saved the setting after I changed
it with the interactive command.  I feel certain there is a way to tell
Emacs to evaluate the function when the .gnu-emacs (the name for .emacs on
my system) file is loaded. (How) Can this be done?

Re: calling set-face-font in the .gun-emacs (aka .emacs)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.05.2005 um 07:14 schrieb Hattuari:

> I spent the last hour
> trying to figure out how to call set-face-font so that the default face
> font is -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--20-140-100-100-m-110-iso8859-15.

set-face-font is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `faces'.
(set-face-font face font &optional frame)

Change font-related attributes of face to those of font (a string).
frame nil or not specified means change face on all frames.
This sets the attributes `:family', `:width', `:height', `:weight',
and `:slant'.  When called interactively, prompt for the face and font.

One example I found with find-grep:

(set-face-font face gamegrid-font)

Could be close to my face customized prompt's setting:

  '(comint-highlight-prompt ((t (:background "LemonChiffon" :foreground 
"dark blue" :weight bold :family "-*-courier 
new-medium-r-*-10646-1"))))

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Re: calling set-face-font in the .gun-emacs (aka .emacs)

[Hattuari]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 17.05.2005 um 07:14 schrieb Hattuari:
> 
>> I spent the last hour
>> trying to figure out how to call set-face-font so that the default face
>> font is -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--20-140-100-100-m-110-iso8859-15.
> 
> set-face-font is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `faces'.
> (set-face-font face font &optional frame)
> 
> Change font-related attributes of face to those of font (a string).
> frame nil or not specified means change face on all frames.
> This sets the attributes `:family', `:width', `:height', `:weight',
> and `:slant'.  When called interactively, prompt for the face and font.
> 
> One example I found with find-grep:
> 
> (set-face-font face gamegrid-font)
> 
> Could be close to my face customized prompt's setting:
> 
>   '(comint-highlight-prompt ((t (:background "LemonChiffon" :foreground
> "dark blue" :weight bold :family "-*-courier
> new-medium-r-*-10646-1"))))

Thanks for the pointer.  I'm a bit gunshy when it comes to playing around
with the fonts that way.  It hasn't always turned out the way I expected. 
Perhaps I will try again.

What I was really trying to learn is how to call an interactive command
programmatically.  I believe that can be done.

Re: calling set-face-font in the .gun-emacs (aka .emacs)

[Kevin Rodgers]

Hattuari wrote:
> What I was really trying to learn is how to call an interactive command
> programmatically.  I believe that can be done.

Use `C-h f'.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: calling set-face-font in the .gun-emacs (aka .emacs)

[Hattuari]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> Hattuari wrote:
>> What I was really trying to learn is how to call an interactive command
>> programmatically.  I believe that can be done.
> 
> Use `C-h f'.
> 
The answer I was looking for was to use real quotation marks around the font
specification 
(set-face-font 'default
"-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1")

`C-h f' doesn't tell me that.

Re: calling set-face-font in the .gun-emacs (aka .emacs)

[drkm]

Hattuari <susudata@setidava.kushan.aa> writes:

> The answer I was looking for was to use real quotation marks around the font
> specification 
> (set-face-font 'default
> "-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1")

> `C-h f' doesn't tell me that.

  Yes, it does:

    ,----[ C-h f set-face-font RET ]
    | (set-face-font face font &optional frame)
    | 
    | Change font-related attributes of face to those of font (a
    | string).
    `----

  BTW, use 'set-face-attribute' instead of 'set-face-font' if you
are not releated to compatibility issues:

    (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "-adobe-...")

--drkm