From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Negative positions in frame parameters Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:41:38 +0900 Organization: Faculty of Science, Chiba University Message-ID: References: <4BC4829D.5010202@swipnet.se> <87ochns79i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4BC49C58.8050303@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271202125 7816 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2010 23:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 01:42:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1pjz-0001mZ-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:41:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1pjy-0000hC-F1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O1pjt-0000h5-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49547 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O1pjr-0000gn-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1pjp-0006VQ-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mathmail.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp ([133.82.132.2]:64998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1pjk-0006U5-1e; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from church.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp (church [133.82.132.36]) by mathmail.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49329C0557; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:41:38 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <4BC49C58.8050303@swipnet.se> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: NetBSD 3.0 (DF) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123602 Archived-At: >>>>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:31:20 +0200, Jan Dj=E4rv = said: > David Kastrup skrev 2010-04-13 17.26: >> Jan Dj=E4rv writes: >>=20 >>> The problem in Emacs is how do you say the equivalent to >>>=20 >>> -geometry --10--10, -geometry +-10+-10 >>>=20 >>> in frame parameters? >>=20 >> (make-frame '((right . -10) (bottom . -10))) >>=20 >> (make-frame '((left . -10) (top . -10))) >>=20 >> would seem like a reasonably obvious way. >>=20 > You would think that, but I found out that is actually: > (make-frame '((right . (- -10)) (left . (- -10))) > and > (make-frame '((right . (+ -10)) (left . (+ -10))) Apparently you meant (make-frame '((top . (- -10)) (left . (- -10)))) and (make-frame '((top . (+ -10)) (left . (+ -10)))) YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp