Re: default font settings

[Kevin Rodgers]

Vincenzo Di Somma wrote:

> I use (set-default-font 
> "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1")
> in my .emacs to set te font I like, but when I open another window with 
> C x 5-2 emacs use the default font instead of my one, how can I fix it ?

The doc string for set-default-font explicitly says that it only applies
to the current frame.

The "Font Specification Options" section of the Emacs manual says:

|    By default, Emacs displays text in the font named `9x15', which
| makes each character nine pixels wide and fifteen pixels high.  You can
| specify a different font on your command line through the option `-fn
| NAME' (or `--font', which is an alias for `-fn').
|
| `-fn NAME'
| `--font=NAME'
|      Use font NAME as the default font.
...
| You can also specify the font in your `.Xdefaults' file:
|
|      emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1

I prefer the .Xdefaults method, although I use the Emacs*Font class spec
instead of the emacs.font instance spec.

Or, you could do this in your .emacs:

(let ((font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1"))
  (setq initial-frame-alist
        (cons `(font . ,font) initial-frame-alist))
  (setq default-frame-alist
        (cons `(font . ,font) default-frame-alist)))

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Kevin Rodgers