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Re: How make Emacs start with BIGGER xterm??? Can I set width and height


From: Tim X
Subject: Re: How make Emacs start with BIGGER xterm??? Can I set width and height??
Date: 18 Jan 2003 15:27:24 +1100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Seberino <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> writes:

 Christian> I usually like a bigger xterm when I launch Emacs and was
 Christian> wondering if I could put something in .emacs to avoid
 Christian> having to set size with the mouse all the time.

Why are you running emacs within an xterm rather than within its own
window?

You could start the xterm with the geometry command line argument or
set a default size with your .Xresources e.g.

prompt$ xterm -geometry 82x31

or within .Xresources

XTerm*geometry: 82x31

Tim 

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