RE: using Xresources for geometry

[Drew Adams]

    I got the doremi-frm.el from
    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/doremi-frm.el by
    clicking on the download, which opened a new page with the file in it,
    then I copy and past into the scratch buffer, saved it in
    /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/doremi-frm.el, put (require 'doremi-frm)
     in the first line of my .emacs

    M-x load-file ~/.emacs cann't open load file: doremi
    did I do something wrong?

No, you did everything right. But not enough. Emacs-Lisp libraries often
require other libraries. In this case, `doremi-frm.el' requires `doremi.el'.
In fact, it also requires other libraries, besides `doremi.el'.

You will see this comment in doremi-frm.el:

;;  Library `doremi-frm' requires these libraries:
;;
;;    `avoid', `doremi', `faces', `faces+', `frame-cmds', `frame-fns',
;;    `hexrgb', `icomplete', `icomplete+', `misc-fns', `mwheel', `ring',
;;    `ring+', `strings', `thingatpt', `thingatpt+'.

Not all of those libraries are absolutely required, however. To determine
what you absolutely need:

 - Look for `(require...)' in doremi-frm.el.
 - Load those files.
 - Look in those files for `(require...)'.
 - Etc.

Any `(require...)' of this form: (require 'something nil t) is *optional* -
the library is not absolutely required. It is the third arg `t' that signals
this.

In `doremi-frm.el', for example you see this:

 (require 'doremi)
 (require 'hexrgb)
 (require 'ring+)
 (require 'frame-fns)
 (require 'faces+)

 (require 'frame-cmds nil t)
 (unless (fboundp 'read-number)(require 'strings nil t))

 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))

The first group of `require's are mandatory, for `doremi-frm.el' to work.

The second group (frame-cmds, strings) are optional.

Both of these groups are my libraries - they are not included with standard
Emacs. So, you will need to download all libraries in the first group, for
`doremi-frm.el' to work. (And some of those libraries might require you to
download other libraries.) You do not need to download `frame-cmds.el' or
`strings.el'.

The last `require' is a compile-time-only require, and library `cl.el' is a
standard Emacs library, so you do not need to download anything for this
dependency.

HTH.