How to increase the font size in emacs

CodeWarrior · 05-12-2003, 07:07 PM

How do I do this in emacs and shutoff the creation of the *~ file permenantly? Thanks

Tinkster · 05-12-2003, 07:29 PM

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Font: How do I do this in emacs

edit .emacs and add
(setq default-frame-alist '((font . "-courier-medium-r-normal--12-
*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1")
(cursor-color . "black")
(user-position . t)
(user-size . t)
(height . 60)
(width . 80)))

Modify to your liking :)

Cheers,
Tink

Tinkster · 05-12-2003, 07:37 PM

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shutoff the creation of the *~ file permenantly?

(defun turn-off-backup ())

Not sure whether it works, I didn't try it (I *like*
the backup-files ;})

Cheers,
Tink

nakkaya · 05-12-2003, 08:35 PM

that is not a wise idea but you can collect them under one folder i collect them under .save this is more secure. some times you just need them.

;;save everything to a folder
(setq
backup-by-copying t ; don't clobber symlinks
backup-directory-alist
'(("." . "~/.saves")) ; don't litter my fs tree
delete-old-versions t
kept-new-versionhs 6
kept-old-versions 2
version-control t) ; use versioned backups

valbaca · 11-04-2009, 10:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nakkaya

that is not a wise idea but you can collect them under one folder i collect them under .save this is more secure. some times you just need them.

;;save everything to a folder
(setq
backup-by-copying t ; don't clobber symlinks
backup-directory-alist
'(("." . "~/.saves")) ; don't litter my fs tree
delete-old-versions t
kept-new-versionhs 6
kept-old-versions 2
version-control t) ; use versioned backups

nakkaya, I'll try yours out.
I just have this one-liner (make sure you make the directory ~/.emacs_backups/:

Code:

;; Save all backup file in this directory.
(setq backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.emacs_backups/"))))