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Re: Size of emacs window can't exceed 59 in height
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Chetan |
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Re: Size of emacs window can't exceed 59 in height |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:16:47 -0700 |
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Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 09.10.2008 um 01:20 schrieb Chetan:
>
>> I do not set anything in the default-frame-alist except for the font.
>> The alist is initialized the way it is because of other functions I
>> call. The width and height are the values coming from the command
>> line.
>
> The latter sounds very reasonable: why use some special code to give GNU
> Emacs
> the desired frame size and position when there are the *-
> frame-alists?
>
There are limitations to fixing positions in .emacs. I would much
rather do it on the command line as required, especially when I use
the same .emacs on different machines.
>
>> I checked the NEWS file after I found this, but it seems to say that
>> the position values are used for the initial frame.
>
> If there are *no* particular initial-frame-alist settings, then the
> default-frame-alist settings (also) apply for the first or initial frame.
This isn't about initial-frame-alist. It is about the command line
option not working, when there is no *-frame-alist to interfere.
>> At first I thought it was a bug, but since it works from shell, there
>> is something else at play.
>
> Launching GNU Emacs with -Q (i.e. not loading system and user init files)
> allows you to examine the problem – and find and describe a possible bug. But
> beware: in windowing systems' environments there can be settings in (X11)
> resource or (MS) registry files that impose on their clients some behaviour
> (position, size) when nothing else is given ...
If the same environment works in other cases, there are other things
at play.
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
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- Re: Size of emacs window can't exceed 59 in height, Chetan, 2008/10/08
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- Re: Size of emacs window can't exceed 59 in height, Tim X, 2008/10/09
- Re: Size of emacs window can't exceed 59 in height, Chetan, 2008/10/10