From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Trying to right-align my window on startup Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 13:02:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6507405f-f697-4ddb-965c-d4d6f3ef82db@default> References: < <83r48idw6z.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwj5ekrs.fsf@gnu.org> > <<83k3e8dhj9.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389301406 11371 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 21:03:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Mickey Ferguson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 22:03:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1MlG-0007mb-O9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:03:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54095 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1MlG-0006EI-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Mkx-0006D2-LB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:03:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Mkp-0005HV-3f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:03:11 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:48378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Mke-0005Ex-PK; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:02:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id s09L2osa003343 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:02:51 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s09L2nJM019813 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:02:50 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0007.oracle.com (abhmp0007.oracle.com [141.146.116.13]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s09L2nFR012770; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:02:49 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83k3e8dhj9.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95320 Archived-At: > That's why I said that the numbers will have to be computed, and > that computation will need to take the screen dimensions into > account. Wrong. Specifying the right edge of the frame relative to the right screen edge is trivial, and requires no knowledge (by you) of the screen dimensions. A negative value for frame parameter `left' does just that. No computation needed, for that at least. > Where's the contradiction? what am I missing? See above.