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

[Christian Seberino]

Thanks to all.  This was what I was looking for.

Chris

chris@grierwhite.com (Christopher J. White) wrote in message 
news:<m2ptqutvyc.fsf@bluesteel.grierwhite.com>...
> >>>>> "cs" == Christian Seberino <seberino@spawar.navy.mil> writes:
> 
> cs> I usually like a bigger xterm when I launch Emacs and was wondering
> cs> if I could put something in .emacs to avoid having to set size
> cs> with the mouse all the time.
> 
> I'm going to assume you mean starting an emacs session that 
> opens it's own window which is not really in an xterm.  
> Ie., running a version of emacs with X11 support.
> 
> As someone else alluded to, you can put geometry info
> in the default-frame-alist, this controls the creation of
> new frames as well:
> 
> (setq default-frame-alist `((width . 80) (height . 50)))
> 
> You might also need to set initial-frame-alist to the same
> to control the first emacs frame:
> 
> (setq initial -frame-alist `((width . 80) (height . 50)))
> 
> I don't need to do this in  my configuration, but I can't
> remember why (been using this .emacs for a long time....)
> 
> ...cj