Re: [h-e-w] Fwd: Re: Control frame size on startup from .emacs

[Chris McMahan]

I would prefer that font and geometry NOT be set in the registry, but
in the user's .emacs file. I didn't use .Xresources on the Unix
system for this either.

- Chris

address@hidden writes:
>Karel Sprenger wrote:
>
>> Neil J Mackie wrote:
>> > I'm unsure how much of the recent discussion on this list about 
>> > registry keys and installers is official emacs policy, I just
>> > want to let the developers know that using these things will
>> > prevent me using emacs anywhere other than at home. Is that what
>> > they want?
>>
>> Just as Neil I have been using emacs for ages, both on Unix (Sun,
>> Next, True64, Linux) platforms and on Windows (NT, 2K, XP), and I
>> have managed to do all configuration by means of the files
>> site-start.el and default.el in the site-lisp directory, plus the
>> .emacs and .custom files in the user's home directory. The great
>> thing is that I could use the same files on all platforms by
>> placing the relevant statements inside cond or if expressions.
>> Try that with the Windows registry.
>
>I think the Windows registry is being used mainly for areas that are
>not really portable on other systems either.  For example, the registry
>keys that I mentioned previously (Emacs.Font and Emacs.Geometry) would
>exist in a .Xresources file on a Unix or Linux system.
>
>
>, which is no more portable than the Windows registry.
>

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