Question

My emacs (on Windows) always launches with a set size, which is rather small, and if I resize it, it’s not ‘remembered’ at next start-up.

I’ve been playing with the following:

(set-frame-position (selected-frame) 200 2) ; pixels x y from upper left (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 110 58) ; rows and columns w h 

which totally works when I execute it in the scratch buffer. I put it in my .emacs, and although now when I start the program, I can see the frame temporarily set to that size, by the time *scratch* loads, it resets back to the small default again.

Can anyone help me fix up the above code so that it ‘sticks’ on start-up?

Answer 1

Here’s what I use in my ~/.emacs:

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(left . 0)) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(top . 0)) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . 50)) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width . 155))