From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Quokka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to set window starting coordinates? Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:20:57 +0800 Message-ID: <41ec8088$0$16226$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> References: <1105994654.009453.228500@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106018887 5486 80.91.229.6 (18 Jan 2005 03:28:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 18 04:28:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cqk2B-0007MO-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 04:28:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CqkE3-0003SD-Ul for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:40:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!HSNX.atgi.net!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.59.9.243 Original-X-Trace: 1106018440 per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au 16226 203.59.9.243 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127953 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23441 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23441 >> >>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs] >>"Emacs.FONT"="-*-Lucida Console-normal-r-*-*-11-82-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1" >>"Emacs.GEOMETRY"="90x60" > > > True enough. And better yet, put it into HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE so that if more than one user uses the PC, each can > customize as he desires. > > But I kind of wanted it to be controlled through code in the .emacs file and > not in the registry, because that way I have portability if I take my emacs > installation elsewhere. I don't have to remember to import a reg file if I > take it to a PC in the lab, or at a customer site. Actually .. I find that that is why I put it into the registry, so when I am on a different machine with a different size screens (i.e. 19inch work station as opposed to a laptop) then the size goes back to default. Paul