Re: Emacs default font

[Dan Davison]

bhargava <bhargava470@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all, 
> I would like to know what is the name of the default font in emacs. I
> donot like the default font that comes with the ubuntu package. I used
> emacs that I compiled from the source. For some reasons now I'm stuck up
> with the emacs installed from the ubuntu repo. I liked the default font
> that came with it. So I never cared about the font.  I read some where
> about cse-huji-default-font but could not find this using the M-x
> command. (describe-variable).
>
> The font I'm talking about is some what similar to the font in this web
> page http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ .
>
> So please let me know what the default font of emacs is how to set it. 

I don't know about what the default font is on different systems, but
this is the line I'm using to configure the default face (I'm also on
Ubuntu).

  (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 110 :family "DejaVu Sans Mono")

Dan

>
> Thanks.