From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Android Eve Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: set-frame-size doesn't work in Emacs 23.2 ? Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <56a3f53b-678f-4c57-a6d5-cdddde762de8@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291929416 2741 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 21:16:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:16:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 22:16:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQnr9-0002D7-Qg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:16:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36284 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQnr8-0008EI-7a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:16:50 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.169.151.85 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1282163232 25848 127.0.0.1 (18 Aug 2010 20:27:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:27:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.169.151.85; posting-account=CJoXgwoAAACUXddE_-SuTC62IzEnupMg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180817 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:37:48 -0500 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77073 Archived-At: On Aug 18, 1:42=A0pm, Android Eve wrote: > > Why? > The mystery is now even greater since I managed to make (set-frame- size (selected-frame) 96 72) work in .emacs -- here is how: Originally, these two lines were conditioned upon the window system: (cond ((eq window-system 'w32) (progn (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 120 0) (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 96 88) ))) So, I just moved these two lines above the condition and mysteriously they started working! Why "mysteriously"? Because there are other statements inside that (eq window-system 'w32) that work flawlessly. If I invoke M-x describe- variable window-system , it returns the value w32. So why is this odd behavior of Emacs 23.2?