From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Even Nilsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: frames and reading of .emacs? Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:41:23 +0100 Organization: University of Bergen Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073643579 19461 80.91.224.253 (9 Jan 2004 10:19:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 09 11:19:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Aetjl-0002ie-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:19:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AetEC-0000gb-IN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 04:46:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!nntp.uib.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cardiff.nersc.no Original-X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 1073640227 72768 129.177.42.105 (9 Jan 2004 09:23:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jan 2004 09:23:47 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119914 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15848 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15848 Greg Fenton wrote: > Jan Even Nilsen wrote: >> ... >> I have now stripped down the .emacs, and I am still puzzled, so I hope >> someone can give me a hint as to what my new emacs is doing. >> I know that an existing default.el would be read last, but there is no >> such file on my system, as far as I can see. > > What about ~/.Xresources ? No such file on my system, but I'll look into the system's Xresources files. > Can you post your "stripped down" .emacs ? It's contents is only the text posted between the --- lines, that's how stripped it is, to make sure this strange behaviour is not my own doing. Xresources: The system Xresources file(s all) contain the line emacs.geometry: 80x25 This is the size the frame gets initially. Then, when .emacs is read, the line (setq initial-frame-alist '((top . -00) (left . 300) (width . 89) (height . 51))) makes the frame move, but does not manage to resize it. I do not understand? Is it wrong syntax for setq of height and width (works for default-frame-alist though)? A Q&D way, since new-frames are like I want them, is to set (delete-frame) (new-frame) in the end of .emacs BTW: The inclusion of the emacs related entry into a ~/.Xresources and edit of these, did not help. 2) The changing of the face for the marked region is somewhat of a puzzle, but I can live with it. It nags me that some function overrides my settings, though. Even