Re: finding the elisp underpinning a menu choice

Clever. I've done that before, about a billion years ago. So what I get is that it runs: (font-menu-set-font nil nil 140) which by itself is not very useful if I plug it into the end of my init file. So I went digging through the source to see where font-menu-set-font is defined and what it's loaded from and what else is required, blah blah, having really no idea what I'm doing, but being willing to experiement a bit. I figure I need to load one of the font-menu.el modules in the source lisp directory. There are about four of them. Then I learn that the args in font-menu-set-font are family, weight, and size. In custom.el when I set a face, family becomes a quoted string, so I set that to "courier". I figure weight is irrelevant, so I put nil as a placeholder, and I'm trying to set it to 14 (whatever it is - pixels, points???), and in the example it says 140. I don't know why the multiple of 10, but I experimented with 120, and I eval'ed, and it sort of worked. I didn't put it in the init file yet, just came up the way I usually do, then eval'ed that form. Finally, I put a of each of the font-menu modules in turn in init.el, followed by (font-menu-set-font "courier nil 140). It almost works, except the alignment in shell buffers is not nice. This all seems like a harebrained way to do what I want to do, and probably fragile as well, but I'm almost there. And will not be deeply upset if I can't get the last piece. Thanks for that lead. It almost worked. -- Lynn David Newton Columbus, Ohio neologisticsediting.com lynndavidnewton.com _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta