Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!bzs
From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X and gnuemacs
Message-ID: <22721@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 18 May 88 03:13:18 GMT
References: <sWY70ay00Vg6I9L0gx@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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In-reply-to: dl23+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU's message of 17 May 88 16:53:58 GMT


>Hello.  I am using gnuemacs (version 18.50.2) through X11R2.  Whenever I start
>up a gnuemacs process, the window comes up ok, but it's size is 80x25.  My
>question is: How do I specify a size for the window that emacs comes up in?  I
>would like something along the lines of 80x40 or so.  I've tried putting
>'-geometry' flags in the command line, but this just opens up two buffers in
>emacs (one for '-geometry' and one for the size specification I gave).  Any
>ideas?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Damon

Would you settle for putting:

Xemacs.Geometry:	80x40

into your .Xdefaults file? (Xemacs might be just emacs, whatever you
call it.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University