From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: George Colpitts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Carbon emacs - frame too big for minibuffer can't resize window Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:46:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109551601 27443 80.91.229.2 (28 Feb 2005 00:46:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:46:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 28 01:46:40 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5Z3K-0004v5-4l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5ZLZ-0008OV-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:05:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:46:49 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.148.157 Original-X-Trace: sv3-BZDrnHsD5DZI0j5c8cRwG2usHmDHLiiIcONf/6UzyGps7U8GpwJ2W9S5R5PnIcro3B622jdUQVY76mh!g55VPGe5vo9LfHpX+fu8JAY56ViEEWLmxwnJ+c2pWFrmAYr4vq+M3HyvPzohLjY2Wv0mp/0QOGWV!xxn/tIxnCBTzjfZAcnckV5zsUVT/sVDf Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128872 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24414 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24414 In article , August wrote: > On sön, 2005-02-27 at 12:25 -0500, George Colpitts wrote: > > I've installed the latest Carbon emacs, 21.3.50.1, and the frame is too > > long, the minibuffer is off the screen and I can't resize the window. > > How can I fix this ? > > Have you tried to customize `height' in `default-frame-alist'? To make > the Emacs frame fit on my 15 inch monitor I have set `height' to 39. Thanks this was the key, using Google I was able to figure out the details i.e. I added (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 100) (height . 38))) to my .emacs file. I didn't understand many of the other responses. This is a binary, a .dmg, not something I built from CVS sources. This is a prepackaged dmg install mentioned in the weekly adc newsletter and also available at the download section of the Apple web site so I was a bit surprised that it started with this problem. I assume this version has been released It seems to me that the default height and width should be tiny rather than large so that users could resize the window rather than having to learn the above. I agree that I should learn more about customization but its not trivial for me to go from a problem about the height of the window to the elisp form: (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 100) (height . 38))) It's a big improvement over the standard emacs that comes on the Mac so I'm very grateful for all the help