Re: 23.0.60; new frames ignore set-default-font

[Jason Rumney]

Jim Hunziker wrote:
> I am using the Xft font backend and Emacs from CVS.  I am using the
> Andale Mono-13 font from msttcorefonts.
>
> When using the setting (set-default-font "Andale Mono-13") in my
> .emacs file, new frames created with M-x 5 2 don't use the default
> font.  (The initial frame does use the font.)
>   

I think this is by design. set-default-font is an alias for 
set-frame-font, and it only sets the default font for the current frame.
To set the font for future frames, you need to set the font 
frame-parameter in default-frame-alist.