From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How come emacsclient --create-frame doesn't understand -geometry? Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:26:31 +0900 Message-ID: <87y5v4psrc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ipmaphzc.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <87bos16erz.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <2kmxbltkyy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87aa7lz5ai.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <36bos1qomn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322206016 8032 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2011 07:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj=C3=B8gren?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 25 08:26:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTqBP-0002lW-7H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:26:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTqBO-0007RP-Kh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTqBL-0007Qv-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTqBJ-0006mb-5R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:51342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTqBI-0006iu-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:26:45 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CD69707D4; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:26:31 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2E9A01A2FDB; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:26:31 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <36bos1qomn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0a1 under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" 2dbefd79b3d3 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146209 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Personally I'm not sure there is a need for a specialized --geometry > argument, since it would just do a subset of what -F does. It's a very convenient abbreviation, especially since the syntax of --frame-parameters requires quoting. FWIW, XEmacs's gnuclient doesn't accept -geometry either, and the reason it's not been done yet is as somebody explained earlier: it's non-trivial to port the main program's code to handle it because that code is set up to install it as the default for all future frames. Steve