Re: setting the font in .emacs

[Oliver Scholz]

Keith <kroc@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

>>>>>> "os" == Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
>
>     os> (set-face-font 'default
>     os> "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1")
>
>
> That was something I had not yet found out, but actually solved one of
> my small problems. Tried it and it worked perfectly.
>
> Unfortunately I use emacs at the cli as well and this generates an
> error if emacs is started outside of X. How should it be modified to
> only apply ix X is running, there by not generating the error?
[...]

Yes, you can check for various display capabilities with the
`display-.*-p'-functions. In this case `display-multi-font-p' would be
the appropriate one:

(when (display-multi-font-p)
  (set-face-font ...))

    -- Oliver

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