Re: proper setting of default font (and string-handling in elisp?)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.08.2009 um 04:11 schrieb Tom Roche:

> 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?

        (setq initial-frame-alist
          (append (list
            '(border-color      . "#4e3832")
            '(foreground-color  . "grey10")
            '(background-color  . "AliceBlue")
            '(active-alpha      . 0.875)
            '(inactive-alpha    . 0.75)
            '(font . "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter")
            '(top . 136) '(left . 666) '(width . 100) '(height . 57)
          ) initial-frame-alist))

There is also default-frame-alist. As you can see you can append to  
some basic structure elements for this or that GNU Emacs version.  
There may be much more frame-specific entities.

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