From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Size of emacs window can't exceed 59 in height Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:16:47 -0700 Organization: Noname Inc. Message-ID: References: <87vdw3o5b5.fsf@es.aau.dk> <87fxn7o2xt.fsf@es.aau.dk> <289AC3F2-480A-489F-87BC-14C94C44B2B2@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223556143 16363 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2008 12:42:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:42:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 09 14:43:19 2008 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 1Knur4-0007pf-Bl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Knuq0-0004RY-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:41:52 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flpi089.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flpi088.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com.POSTED!8e1d8614!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:TOcyeklt/QG1mkboFfU52QGqrMQ= Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.37.16.137 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com 1223554609 ST000 75.37.16.137 (Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:16:49 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:16:49 EDT X-UserInfo1: [[PGGVCE[BWASVDY[ZOD]_\@VR]^@B@MCPWZKB]MPXHBTWICYFWUQBKZQLYJX\_ITFD_KFVLUN[DOM_A_NSYNWPFWNS[XV\I]PZ@BQ[@CDQDPCL^FKCBIPC@KLGEZEFNMDYMKHRL_YYYGDSSODXYN@[\BK[LVTWI@AXGQCOA_SAH@TPD^\AL\RLGRFWEARBM Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163267 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:58612 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 09.10.2008 um 01:20 schrieb Chetan: > >> I do not set anything in the default-frame-alist except for the font. >> The alist is initialized the way it is because of other functions I >> call. The width and height are the values coming from the command >> line. > > The latter sounds very reasonable: why use some special code to give GNU Emacs > the desired frame size and position when there are the *- > frame-alists? > There are limitations to fixing positions in .emacs. I would much rather do it on the command line as required, especially when I use the same .emacs on different machines. > >> I checked the NEWS file after I found this, but it seems to say that >> the position values are used for the initial frame. > > If there are *no* particular initial-frame-alist settings, then the > default-frame-alist settings (also) apply for the first or initial frame. This isn't about initial-frame-alist. It is about the command line option not working, when there is no *-frame-alist to interfere. >> At first I thought it was a bug, but since it works from shell, there >> is something else at play. > > Launching GNU Emacs with -Q (i.e. not loading system and user init files) > allows you to examine the problem – and find and describe a possible bug. But > beware: in windowing systems' environments there can be settings in (X11) > resource or (MS) registry files that impose on their clients some behaviour > (position, size) when nothing else is given ... If the same environment works in other cases, there are other things at play. > -- > Greetings > > Pete > <\ > \__ O __O > | O\ _\\/\-% _`\<, > '()-'-(_)--(_) (_)/(_)