Resizing and positioning Emacs main window and speedbar

Resizing and positioning Emacs main window and speedbar

[kala]

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Hi all!

I'm new to emacs customising and I don't understand much Lisp.

Here's what I'd like to do:

When I open emacs, I'd like the main window to be positioned on the left
side of the window. The size of the window should be screenheight -
KDE-panel height (or maximum number of lines fitting in the screen) and the
width should be 80 characters.

Then I'd like the speedbar to be started automagically at launch time and it
should be attached right next to the main window (on the right side, that
is). The speedbar window should be the same height as the main window, and
the width could be for example 25 characters.

Now how do I edit my ~/.emacs-file?

Here's what I found from the net. It's a start, but not much more...

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
             '(height . 80)
             '(width . 80))

;;start speedbar if we're using a window system
(when window-system
  (speedbar t))



Thanks for your advice.
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Re: Resizing and positioning Emacs main window and speedbar

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.07.2006 um 13:25 schrieb kala:

> When I open emacs, I'd like the main window to be positioned on the  
> left
> side of the window.

See initial-frame-alist.

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Re: Resizing and positioning Emacs main window and speedbar

[kala]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 12.07.2006 um 13:25 schrieb kala:
> See initial-frame-alist.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 

Thanks, that solved the main window issue. Now how to apply size &
postioning settings to the speedbar?

I have now:

;; start speedbar if we're using a window system
(when window-system
  (speedbar t ))

(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(case-fold-search t)
 '(current-language-environment "Latin-9")
 '(default-input-method "latin-9-prefix")
 '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))
 '(hide-ifdef-initially nil t)
 '(initial-frame-alist (quote ((top . 0) (left . 0) (width . 80) (height .
63))))
 '(view-calendar-holidays-initially nil t)
 '(view-diary-entries-initially nil t))

in my ~/.emacs-file
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Re: Resizing and positioning Emacs main window and speedbar

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.07.2006 um 15:03 schrieb kala:

> Thanks, that solved the main window issue. Now how to apply size &
> postioning settings to the speedbar?

I don't know! I do not use speedbar and I do not read about speedbar.  
Is it good for?

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   Pete

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