From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: August Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Carbon emacs - frame too big for minibuffer can't resize window Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:12:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1109607164.5327.6.camel@c83-250-206-22.bredband.comhem.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109607316 26226 80.91.229.2 (28 Feb 2005 16:15:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 28 17:15:16 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5nXt-0006cJ-5z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:14:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5nqH-000842-48 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:33:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5npO-0007on-La for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5npG-0007kk-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:32:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5npG-0007jC-Pr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:32:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.116] (helo=av9-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D5nV7-0001hT-Ek for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:12:05 -0500 Original-Received: by av9-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 96ABF37E75; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:12:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.178]) by av9-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E79C37E59 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:12:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from c83-250-206-22.bredband.comhem.se (c83-250-206-22.bredband.comhem.se [83.250.206.22]) by smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A4D37E4D for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:12:03 +0100 (CET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) 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:24429 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24429 On s=C3=B6n, 2005-02-27 at 19:46 -0500, George Colpitts wrote: > In article , > August wrote: >=20 > > On s=C3=B6n, 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=20 > > > long, the minibuffer is off the screen and I can't resize the windo= w.=20 > > > How can I fix this ?=20 > >=20 > > Have you tried to customize `height' in `default-frame-alist'? To mak= e > > the Emacs frame fit on my 15 inch monitor I have set `height' to 39. >=20 >=20 > Thanks this was the key, using Google I was able to figure out the=20 > details i.e. I added=20 >=20 >=20 > (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 100) > (height . 38))) >=20 > to my .emacs file.=20 Note that lines longer than 80 characters are not recommended as they will not fit on standard terminals. That's why the default width is 80. --=20 August