From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: removing the echo area Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:34:12 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <878xnzqsd7.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150324863 20648 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 22:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 00:41:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqe2l-0005Kz-BF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fqe2k-00035Z-SG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:40:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-10!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:awDRoDANvtVT/0DqNtTvDPmAHpQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 30 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139853 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35477 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > Jason Grieves wrote: >> Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I am currently >> operating a piece of software in emacs that requires the entire >> screen, i.e. the number of rows. In other words, because emacs >> takes the top and bottom rows of the tty, the software will no >> longer load. We can trick the software into thinking it loads but >> sadly the words get all jumbled up. >> We have found a way to remove the menu bar, but is there any way to >> remove the echo area as well? > > Do you mean you are running your program from Emacs via `M-x term'? > That should set up the terminal so that your program can query the > terminal configuration and display properly. > I think the OPs problem is they are running it from a console rather than under X. One way around would be to configure the console to use a smaller font so that you get more than the 25x80 you get with default font size. Of course, how useful this is would depend on how large your monitor is. Under Linux, this can be configured via LILO at boot time. Not sure about other boot loaders like grub etc. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au