Re: default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

[Elena]

On Dec 16, 7:52 am, Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 16, 12:32 am, unfrostedpoptart <da...@therogoffs.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm stumped and need advice.  I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Linux
> > (Redhat Enterprise), Windows (XP-SP3), and Mac (OSX 10.6.5).
> > I'm trying to use a common .emacs.d/init.el and can't get the default
> > font to work across the 3 environments.  I just want them all to come
> > up with a nice, fixed-width font.  courier-new would be fine and
> > should exist on all the machines.  How do I do this?
>
> > On a related note, what variables/functions would be good as
> > conditionals if I do need some code only executed on certain
> > platforms?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> >  David
>
> C-h v system-type
> C-h v window-system

That is:

C-h v system-type RET
C-h v window-system RET