emacs question

[fivemack]

My .emacs file contains the line

(set-default-font "7x13")

and indeed whenever I load a file into emacs, it comes up in 7x13.

But if I do C-x 5 2 to get another emacs window, the file in that window appears in a much larger and uglier font with inelegant serifs. How do I really set the default font?

[note: I don't run emacs-client, I edit files with 'emacs foo' on the command-line, so often I have lots of separate emacs processes; also, by 'window' I mean a window-system window rather than whatever emacs's internal jargon 'window' means]

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I use X resources to configure mine.

Emacs*menubar*font:     -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-p-*-iso8859-1
Emacs*popup*font:       -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-75-75-p-*-iso8859-1
Emacs.font:             -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
Emacs.iconName:         emacs
Emacs21.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1

You'll have to brave the X font naming nightmare to figure out what name to put instead of the ones I have...

[emperor]

xfontsel isn't too dreadful in helping with that, IME.

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling 7x13 is usually in X-land an alias to the appropriate font, anyway...

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

Setting emacs default fonts seems to be a battle of wills. I've not found a satisfactory cross platform way that is respected by the new frames, font-lock stuff, and doesn't involve setting the same thing in multiple places.

I'd love to know what you're supposed to do.

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

"emacs -fn 7x13" ?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's a tolerable crude solution for people like me, who try to keep one long-running emacs and use emacsclient to load things into it. Which is not what Tom says he does, and I could certainly see finding it a pain to remember to type each time.

Hence
alias e="emacs -fn 7x13"
or suitable equivalent for the shell in use. Having your various setup files keep e defined suitably (to run the editor directly, run emacsclient, or whatever) in the right contexts makes a lot of things simpler to remember. Also shorter to type.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me. I didn't think I'd logged this out.

I suppose I'd better go back and reread my friends list for the locked posts, then.