On sÃn, 2005-02-27 at 19:46 -0500, George Colpitts wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > August <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On sÃn, 2005-02-27 at 12:25 -0500, George Colpitts wrote: > > > I've installed the latest Carbon emacs, 21.3.50.1, and the frame is too > > > long, the minibuffer is off the screen and I can't resize the window. > > > How can I fix this ? > > > > Have you tried to customize `height' in `default-frame-alist'? To make > > the Emacs frame fit on my 15 inch monitor I have set `height' to 39. > > > Thanks this was the key, using Google I was able to figure out the > details i.e. I added > > > (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 100) > (height . 38))) > > to my .emacs file.
Note that lines longer than 80 characters are not recommended as they will not fit on standard terminals. That's why the default width is 80. -- August _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs