From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: WalterGR Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set window size in .emacs and have that size respected? Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:17:42 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9510acb6-f545-4f3c-8935-633b7b0fee69@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com> References: <49f67ade-3c42-407d-9f5e-6220568036fc@o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <55314adf-7e68-460a-92c5-ff97b5b8cae5@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> 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: ger.gmane.org 1231874351 16675 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2009 19:19:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:19:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 20:20:22 2009 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 4.50) id 1LMooG-0008Bj-UA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:20:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38588 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMomz-0004en-U8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:19:01 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.45.102.12 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1231863462 20286 127.0.0.1 (13 Jan 2009 16:17:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:17:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.45.102.12; posting-account=Ut0WDQoAAABFlcXayfIPT8oJUeTymM4u User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165973 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:17:22 -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:61305 Archived-At: On Jan 13, 8:08=A0am, WalterGR wrote: > On Jan 13, 8:03=A0am, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > > Am 13.01.2009 um 10:45 schrieb WalterGR: > > > > How do I get Emacs to respect my chosen window height? > > > Remove tool-bar, menu-bar, window decoration? > > I disable the tool-bar prior to setting the height. =A0The menu-bar and > window decoration are enabled. > > But I don't think that's the problem. =A0While it's going through the > start-up process, Emacs shows the menu-bar and window decoration, sets > the height to what I choose, and then suddenly reduces the height by 3 > lines. =A0It's the reduction-by-3 (which happens no matter which height > I select) that confuses me. > > Thanks, > > Walter Oh, I get it now... Your message led me to the right Google incantation, and I found http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.bugs/2002-11/msg00143.html which suggests "This is a known problem, but nobody knows how to fix it." Unfortunate. Walter