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Re: Setting font permanently


From: Kevin Rodgers
Subject: Re: Setting font permanently
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:05:28 -0600
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David Escott wrote:
> I can select the font I want from the Shift-Mouse1 menu, as misc 10x20.
> It look like shit but it is at least readable.

Talk about low standards!

> Now I want to make that
> permanent Options->Save Options doesn't do this?! And everything else
> seems to suggest that I use xfontsel to find the font name again which
> is bullshit considering that emacs has to know what font it is using to
> display. So the question is how do I get emacs to display the current
> font?

I don't use Customize, and prefer hacking my ~/.emacs file myself --
unless I can hack my ~/.Xdefaults file instead.  So how about this
~/.emacs hack:

(set-default-font (face-font 'default))

--
Kevin Rodgers


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