Re: How make Emacs start with BIGGER xterm??? Can I set width and height??

[Billy O'Connor]

Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Seberino <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> writes:
>
>  Christian> I usually like a bigger xterm when I launch Emacs and was
>  Christian> wondering if I could put something in .emacs to avoid
>  Christian> having to set size with the mouse all the time.
>
> Why are you running emacs within an xterm rather than within its own
> window?
>
> You could start the xterm with the geometry command line argument or
> set a default size with your .Xresources e.g.
>
> prompt$ xterm -geometry 82x31
>
> or within .Xresources
>
> XTerm*geometry: 82x31
>

Damn, I was hoping he merely misspoke, and really *meant* running
emacs in it's own window.  I was also hoping you'd be thinking the
same thing, and tell him how to make the emacs window bigger on
startup.  :)

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