Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!dana From: dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X and gnuemacs Message-ID: Date: 23 May 88 11:57:26 GMT Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ USA Lines: 24 In-reply-to: dl23+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU.UUCP's message of 17 May 88 16:53:58 GMT In article dl23+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU.UUCP writes: > 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 The command line argument is -w instead of -geometry. This has been fixed in 18.51. Maybe one day the gnuemacs man page will be updated to reflect all of the window changes. -- Dana Chee Bellcore MRE 2Q-250 (201) 829-4488 dana@bellcore.com