Setting font permanently

[David Escott]

I can select the font I want from the Shift-Mouse1 menu, as misc 10x20.
It look like shit but it is at least readable. Now I want to make that
permanent Options->Save Options doesn't do this?! And everything else
seems to suggest that I use xfontsel to find the font name again which
is bullshit considering that emacs has to know what font it is using to
display. So the question is how do I get emacs to display the current
font? 
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David Wright Escott