On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 05:24, David Vanderschel <d...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> I just installed EmacsW32 on a 64-bit Windows 7 system. > ran into a strangeness that I do not understand. There may > be a bug. > > I selected Lucida Console as my default font, and I set the > size at 11. Using standard Emacs, not EmacsW32, and doing emacs -Q -fn "Lucida Console-11" I get an 80x38 frame. Is that (38 lines) too large for your monitor? > I thought it lame of emacs to > create an initial frame with too many lines to fit on the > screen. Out of curiosity, do you have any Emacs.Geometry setting on the registry? (In HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\GNU\Emacs or somesuch.) > If it is not a bug, can anyone explain what is going on here? It would be useful to know which version of Emacs, whether the bug happens with -Q (so no registry, site-local or user-local settings), and first and foremost if you see the bug with standard Emacs (you can download a recent binary build for Windows from http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ Juanma
