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Re: [h-e-w] emacs geometry
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Chris McMahan |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] emacs geometry |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:17:01 -0400 |
While we're on the topic of geometry...
I have some functions that set the initial height of the emacs screen
based on the selected font and the screen resolution, to maximize the
usable area of emacs. I can post them if there's interest.
- Chris
Paul Whitfield writes:
>Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
>> I have the following in my .emacs
>>
>> ;;; This setting gives me a size 12 on a 1600x1200 display.
>> (set-default-font "-*-Courier New-normal-r-*-*-16-97-*-*-c-*-*-iso8859-1")
>>
>> ;;; This gives me full height of the screen
>> (defun resize-frame ()
>> "Resize current frame to 81 52"
>> (interactive)
>> (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 81 52))
>> (resize-frame)
>>
>> ;;; to recover size after readjusting it manually I use
>> (global-set-key [C-f11] 'resize-frame)
>>
>> ;;; On 1024x768 I use
>> (defun resize-frame ()
>> "Resize current frame to 81 41"
>> (interactive)
>> (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 81 41))
>>
>
>The advantage of doing it via the registry is that
>emacs does not draw the frame, then change fonts and redraw the
>frame. (This is equivilent to setting about a .xdefaults file
>under X)
>
>Thus saving valuable seconds and looking much less ugly.
>
>Regards
>Paul
>
>
>
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