How do I get my Emacs to *always* use 6x13 on X11

Question

I recently declared .emacs bankrupcy and reorganized my init stuff. In the process, I ripped out all the hacky font selection stuff I had accrued over the years, figuring there

Answer 1

I control this stuff from my .Xresources file.

Personally I have

emacs.reverseVideo:     true
emacs.font:             7x13bold

(And I quite agree... long live the bitmap fonts! I'll take my xterm with

XTerm*foreground:       green
XTerm*background:       black
XTerm*font:             7x13bold

... over the Gnome terminal any day).

If you're playing with .Xresources from within a session, xrdb command is useful to reload them.