> 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.


I have: