Re: initial window resized after setting font

>>>>> "Jerome" == Jerome Quelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Jerome> For the completeness sake, I removed the font from my
    Jerome> .Xdefaults file, and added the following to my init.el
    Jerome> file: (set-face-font 'default
    Jerome> "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-m-90-iso8859-15")

    Jerome> It works well, too. But I was wondering which (if any)
    Jerome> should be preferred? For which reason(s)?

Lisp solutions should be preferred (if they work).  Lisp code is
cross-platform and if platform affects the semantics of an API
(besides making it unavailable), that's a bug and the API should be
split into platform-specific APIs.

Consider that with Xt alone there are several ways to do this using
resources (basically .Xdefaults, -xrm, and -font all set resources,
then XEmacs uses those resources to configure itself).  IIRC, XEmacs
will pick up .Xdefaults on MS Windows and GTK, but that's ugly.  I
don't know how you do this from the command line or resources on MS
Windows, but I bet it's slightly different semantically.  GTK and
GNOME have their own scheme for configuring resources (maybe they call
it something else), in order to support themes, I think.  All this is
unclean compared to the Lisp solution.

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