From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting geometry for second frame ?? Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:49:02 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1252757015.2294.32.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252781412 18554 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2009 18:50:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:50:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 12 20:50:02 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 1MmXfc-0004h8-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:50:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49917 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmXfc-0007Dc-13 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MmXfC-0007Bf-RF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MmXf8-00074B-0i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:49:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54314 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmXf7-00073n-OF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51649) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmXf7-0000zE-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MmXf2-0004ZQ-Fj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:49:24 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:49:24 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:49:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: <1252757015.2294.32.camel@CASE> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68085 Archived-At: William Case wrote: > Hi; > > How do you set the size of a secondary frame? > > My Xresources file is set to 'Emacs.Geometry: 80x55+96+35'. That size, > generally speaking, is the default size I am most comfortable with. > However, I have a key binding that opens a second frame containing a > text file in which I keep my notes as I am working. > > (global-set-key [(super f1)] (lambda() > (interactive)(find-file-other-frame > "~/Documents/C/Text/C-Notes.txt"))) > > I want this second frame to open with a geometry of 75x55 so that I can > fit two frames, side-by-side, on my desktop. I don't want to change my > Xresources file unless there is a safe way to write a conditional > command in Xresources, nor compromise on my default setting. > > Is there a way to do this using a key binding to an existing function or > do I have to write my own function? If I have to write my own function, > could you outline which functions and/or variables I might need to use? (let ((default-frame-alist `((height . 75) (width . 55) ,@default-frame-alist))) (find-file-other-frame "~/Documents/C/Text/C-Notes.txt")) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA