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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'stephan.zimmer'" <stephan.zimmer@googlemail.com>,
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Default Window Size
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:55:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002f01c914df$466f94b0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f502349-d81f-40fa-a465-bb09d2e01b24@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>

> is there any way to set the default window size of emacs in .emacs?
> I.e. to achieve the same effect as starting with --geometry=width x
> height? If not, is there any workaround for that, i.e., placing some
> default command line options in an environment variable?
> 
> For a given window, is there any way to locally restrict the width to
> a certain value? I.e., say the window has width 200, but in a certain
> buffer I don't want to exceed the 80 signs limit.

Customize option `default-frame-alist'. See the Emacs manual, keeping in mind
that what you call "window" (a window-manager window) is called a "frame" in
Emacs.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-12  7:13 Default Window Size stephan.zimmer
2008-09-12 13:55 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-09-12 14:06   ` Esteban Fornal
     [not found]   ` <mailman.19122.1221233251.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-12 17:49     ` Oleksandr Gavenko
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-08 14:49 Sky Nerd
2016-07-08 18:13 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-08 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii

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