Re: setting the font in .emacs

[Fredrik Staxeng]

Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> hitt@eskimo.com (Dan Hitt) writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like emacs (21.2.1) to come up with a larger font than it
> > does by default, and i'd like to do this by adding some command
> > to my .emacs file.
> 
> (set-face-font 'default
>              "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1")
> 
> Or set it via customize: 
> 
> `M-x customize-face RET default RET'
> 
 
If you use the X resource instead the font will be correct from the start,
so you don't have to see Emacs resize the window. E g

emacs.font:     -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 

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