From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: initial-frame-alist
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:19:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i44bhf2.fsf@escher.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d4dwhnfe.fsf@justinbogner.com
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:13:25 -0700 mail@justinbogner.com wrote:
> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>> It appears that setting initial-frame-alist has no effect if Emacs is
>> started with --daemon; is this intended? Here's a case in point:
>>
>> Let ~/.emacs consist of this sexp:
>>
>> (setq initial-frame-alist
>> (append initial-frame-alist '((width . 85) (height . 58))))
>>
>> Then do this:
>>
>> $ emacs --daemon
>> $ emacsclient -c
>>
>> The resulting frame has default width and height, not those specified in
>> ~/.emacs. If instead I start Emacs like this:
>>
>
> [ SNIP ... ]
>
> This seems like expected behaviour: there is no frame initially. Having
> `emacsclient -c` work differently depending on whether or not it's the
> first time it's been invoked seems wrong.
Is it wrong if it's the only way that initial-frame-alist can be
effectively used with --daemon?
> If we do want to "fix" this
> behaviour, then I suppose initial-frame-alist should apply to a frame in
> any case where no other frame exists, ie:
>
> emacs --daemon
> emacsclient -c
> # initial-frame-alist applies
> emacsclient -c
> # initial-frame-alist does not apply
> # now close all of the emacs windows
> emacsclient -c
> # initial-frame-alist applies again
>
> This behaviour should also happen if emacs was started by `emacs -nw` and
> the server started there, for consistency. WDYT?
This would be fine by me.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-05 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 11:24 initial-frame-alist Stephen Berman
2009-02-05 14:46 ` initial-frame-alist Dan Nicolaescu
2009-02-05 15:13 ` initial-frame-alist Will Farrington
2009-02-05 15:51 ` initial-frame-alist Stephen Berman
2009-02-05 16:13 ` initial-frame-alist mail
2009-02-05 23:19 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2009-02-05 19:38 ` initial-frame-alist Stefan Monnier
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2009-12-26 15:15 initial-frame-alist Julianne
2009-12-28 0:02 ` initial-frame-alist Peter Dyballa
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