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proper setting of default font (and string-handling in elisp?)
From: |
Tom Roche |
Subject: |
proper setting of default font (and string-handling in elisp?) |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:11:44 -0400 (EDT) |
summary:
I'm running an emacs-23 and am wanting to set my default font for
every frame in init.el. How to do so properly?
details:
This morning I was happily running an up-to-date ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty)
and its stock emacs=22.2.1 when installing the Sun JRE somehow broke
my default emacs font. After much googling and twiddling of emacs=22,
some posts convinced me to go to emacs=23 for
mainmenu>Options>Set Default Font...
So I installed emacs-snapshot-gtk, and it indeed works as advertised.
Unfortunately
0 I want to set the default font automagically on each start of emacs.
Putting
(setq tlr-default-font "Courier 10 Pitch-9")
(if (>= emacs-major-version 23)
(progn
(set-frame-font tlr-default-font)))
in my init.el sorta fixes that, except ...
1 I would like emacs to come up showing the default font I set. If
it's possible to make that happen via init.el (rather than, e.g.,
`emacs --font=...`) I'd like to know. However this is not as
important to me as the next item ...
2 I also want every new frame I open (with e.g. C-x 5 b) to use my
default font. From googling, my impression is that I should do
something like
(setq tlr-default-font "Courier 10 Pitch-9")
(if (>= emacs-major-version 23)
(progn
(set-frame-font tlr-default-font)
; (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . tlr-default-font))
; (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . 'tlr-default-font))
))
but the commented lines fail. Is this solely an elisp problem (which
I'd like to know how to fix anyway)? Or is there also a better way
to set the default font for every frame I open?
TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
- proper setting of default font (and string-handling in elisp?),
Tom Roche <=