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From: antonio.desimone
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 1991 20:36

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I wrote:

>Sometime back somebody posted a message explaining how to change the
>font emacs uses under X.  I tossed the message so I can't give credit
>(or ask by mail, for that matter) but I dutifully put this:
>
>(x-set-font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-12-*")
>
>in my .emacs file, and sure enough emacs starts up with a different
>font!  My problem is, I have no idea what I'm doing.  Can someone
>explain the above? 

Thanks to jmerrill@FENRIS (Jason Merrill) and Milton Epstein
<epstein@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu> for pointing me to the xfontsel function
that explains how to interpret the string in the command above and
allows "browsing" of fonts.

And remember, as someone once said about MacIntosh users, "You should
never give lots of fonts to people with bad taste."
-- 
Tony DeSimone
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Holmdel, NJ 07733
antonio_desimone@att.com

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