Charles G Waldman wrote:
Are you suggesting that Emacs should detect the size of the display
device and size its initial frame appropriately, or that it should
Yes
always come up at a size <= 800x600?
No
I see looking at the doc for 'default-frame-plist' that you can set
the sizes for frames other than the first one in your .emacs. However
setting the size of the first frame is trickier - since it has already
been created by the time .emacs is read.
Following code does kind of remediate the problem:
(if running-xemacsnt
(progn
(setq initial-frame-plist '(top 1 left 1 width 80 height 30))
(setq default-frame-plist '(top 1 left 1 width 80 height
30))))
Does the "-geometry"
command-line flag work on NT? (I'm on my home Linux system and won't
Not on win98
have access to NT until tommorow).
Anyway, I think that we can not afford it that God's own editor
comes up partly beneath the screen on windows boxes: that certainly
will not help in convincing nor attracting new users.