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Re: set custom font in Emacs



On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:41:45PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote:
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> There is no Bitstream Vera Sans Mono among these Bitstream fonts.
> Although I know that I have it on my system. I am able to choose it in
> Gnome. In Desktop -> Preferences -> Font. I can choose that font there
> as an application font and most applications will use it, but not Emacs.
> So I guess somewhere I have to configure something.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated...
> 
You can set it on the command-line or in .xsession, see man emacs

I've made a tiny script to start my favourite emacs-look:

#!/bin/bash
# myemacs

emacs -geometry 90x45 -font
-bitstream-terminal-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -bg
DarkOliveGreen

(these lines should be one line)

/Søren



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