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Re: Carbon emacs - frame too big for minibuffer can't resize window


From: August
Subject: Re: Carbon emacs - frame too big for minibuffer can't resize window
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:12:44 +0100

On sön, 2005-02-27 at 19:46 -0500, George Colpitts wrote:
> In article <mailman.1926.1109544581.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  August <fusionfive@comhem.se> wrote:
> 
> > On sön, 2005-02-27 at 12:25 -0500, George Colpitts wrote:
> > > I've installed the latest Carbon emacs, 21.3.50.1, and the frame is too 
> > > long, the minibuffer is off the screen and I can't resize the window. 
> > > How can I fix this ? 
> > 
> > Have you tried to customize `height' in `default-frame-alist'? To make
> > the Emacs frame fit on my 15 inch monitor I have set `height' to 39.
> 
> 
> Thanks this was the key, using Google I was able to figure out the 
> details i.e. I added 
> 
> 
> (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 100)
>         (height . 38)))
> 
> to my .emacs file. 

Note that lines longer than 80 characters are not recommended as they
will not fit on standard terminals. That's why the default width is 80.

-- 
August




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