Re: Emacs default font

[bhargava Yammanuru]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the replies,

I, after going through couple of webpages, figured out this by trail using, M-x describe-face 

Family: DejaVu Sans Mono

       Foundry: unknown

         Width: normal

        Height: 121

        Weight: normal

         Slant: normal

    Foreground: black

    Background: white

     Underline: nil

      Overline: nil

Strike-through: nil

Box: nil

       Inverse: nil

       Stipple: nil

          Font: #<font-object -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>

       Fontset: -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-startup

       Inherit: unspecified (I think by default this is nil)

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

bhargava <bhargava470@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I would like to know what is the name of the default font in emacs. I
> donot like the default font that comes with the ubuntu package. I used
> emacs that I compiled from the source. For some reasons now I'm stuck up
> with the emacs installed from the ubuntu repo. I liked the default font
> that came with it. So I never cared about the font.  I read some where
> about cse-huji-default-font but could not find this using the M-x
> command. (describe-variable).
>
> The font I'm talking about is some what similar to the font in this web
> page http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ .
>
> So please let me know what the default font of emacs is how to set it.

I don't know about what the default font is on different systems, but
this is the line I'm using to configure the default face (I'm also on
Ubuntu).

 (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 110 :family "DejaVu Sans Mono")

Dan

>
> Thanks.

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