I don't care about all this fancy stuff. Somebody decided to default the font to variable pitch and I want fixed width. Courier, please. This page is too impenetrable to figure out how to default to courier. How do I do that?
-- Anonymous 2013-06-04 16:27 UTC
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Dear Anonymous: [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/SetFonts#toc2 Globally Change the Default Font]
in your case, add this to your .emacs (or whatever) file: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Courier")
To view available fonts on your system, look at (font-family-list)
-- MichaelPaulukonis 2013-06-04 17:58 UTC
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Regarding the part:
[quote]
To change the default font for new (non special-display) frames, put either of these in your init file:
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . FONT ))
(set-face-attribute 'default t :font FONT ))
[/quote]
I understand how when we are in the middle of an emacs session it'd help to have an option to change the
font only of the future-new frames.
But i dont understand the difference of using the 't', or 'nil' option in an .init file when starting a new emacs session . Doesnt it hold than in that case all frames are newones making 't' superfluous in .init file?
-- [http://librebytes.gr chomwitt] 2014-08-14 14:21 UTC
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@ [[chomwitt]]: Yes. In your [[init file]] it should make no noticeable difference whether you use `nil' or `t' for parameter ##FRAME##.
-- DrewAdams 2014-08-14 14:28 UTC
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Using (set-face-attribute 'default t :font FONT ) in .emacs file is problematic because I can find no explanation of what syntax to substitute for FONT...
For example, "M-x describe-font return return" reports "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1" as the font name currently used (or so I suppose what gets reported is what is currently used), but putting (set-face-attribute 'default t :font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1) in .emacs results in the error message "Symbol's value as variable is void: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1" which is a message I'ld rather not be confronted with although I shouldn't be totally bothered because emacs does start with the font I want (but I conjecture emacs starting with my desired font had nothing to do with what I put in .emacs).
Moreover, if I put (set-face-attribute 'default t :font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1") in .emacs that results in no error but the desired font is not used.
Please include a variety of examples that show completely and exactly how to get from the font name reported by "M-x describe-font return return" to the appropriate syntax to substitute for FONT when putting (set-face-attribute 'default t :font FONT ) in .emacs file so as to make emacs start without errors and with the current font... or if that request is of such a fundamentally confused nature as to be inappropriate to achieving my goal (of using the current font by way of .emacs while avoiding error messages) -- because, for example, perhaps "M-x describe-font return return" does not report the font in current use -- then an explanation of why and how it is confused, and an explanation of how one should appropriately proceed would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
P.S. I echo the sentiment that "This page is too impenetrable..."
-- Anonymous 2019-02-23 19:48 UTC
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Ignoring what (seemed) to be said concerning (set-face-attribute ‘default t :font FONT ), I tried random things until serendipitously discovering that adding (set-frame-font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1") as the last line in .emacs seems to work (though I haven't a clue as to what I'm doing).
-- Anonymous 2019-02-23 21:16 UTC
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I like the zoom-frm.el functionality, unfortunately Emacs now tells me that 'Package cl is deprecated'. Any update of the code in the works?
-- DennisVanDok 2022-01-31 16:14 UTC
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@DennisVanDoc:
There's no problem - you can ignore that warning.
[[zoom-frm.el]] (and most of my other libraries) is compatible with multiple Emacs releases. Depending on which release you use when you byte-compile it, you'll get different byte-compiler warnings.
Deprecated libraries are still supported - deprecation does not mean desupport.
The use of library ##cl.el## by ##zoom-frame.el## is only for macro `case' --- the library is not loaded when you use Emacs (runtime). It's loaded only for byte-compilation: ##(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))##
-- DrewAdams 2022-01-31 19:08 UTC