Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your screen? I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font
size — but there may be something I'm missing. It's a small annoyance to
have to drag to fit, especially when I'm often opening and closing Emacs
with a shell script.

Not a high priority, but I would appreciate any pointers.

Thank you.

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Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your screen?

Maybe look at:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen
https://github.com/rmm5t/maxframe.el

I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font size

Not always. Run help set-frame-height:
...
(set-frame-height FRAME HEIGHT &optional PRETEND PIXELWISE)
...
Optional fourth argument PIXELWISE non-nil means that FRAME should be
HEIGHT pixels high.

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On 2020-02-21, HASM <hasm@example.invalid> wrote:

Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your >> screen?

Maybe look at:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen
https://github.com/rmm5t/maxframe.el

I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font size

Not always. Run help set-frame-height:
...
(set-frame-height FRAME HEIGHT &optional PRETEND PIXELWISE)
...
Optional fourth argument PIXELWISE non-nil means that FRAME should be
HEIGHT pixels high.

-- HASM

Thank you!

I went to the Wiki and found the Frame Size section and was able to add the following line to my .emacs file.

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . 45))

I experimented until I got the right height. 45 fits perfectly. Thank you.

And thanks for the link to the Wiki. Here's the page where I found this...

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FrameSize

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RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your screen? I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font size — but there may be something I'm missing. It's a small annoyance to have to drag to fit, especially when I'm often opening and closing Emacs
with a shell script.

You can use the command line options when invoking emacs

emacs -xrm '*fullscreen:fullheight'
emacs -fh

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On 2020-02-22, Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> wrote:

RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your >> screen? I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font
size — but there may be something I'm missing. It's a small annoyance to >> have to drag to fit, especially when I'm often opening and closing Emacs
with a shell script.

You can use the command line options when invoking emacs

emacs -xrm '*fullscreen:fullheight'
emacs -fh

Ah, perfect! Thank you. Already Incorporated "emacs -fh" into my scripts (my "solution" worked pretty well for the one computer, but not for the others). I'm going to have invest some time into learning Emacs.

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Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> writes:

RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your >> screen? I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font
size — but there may be something I'm missing. It's a small annoyance to >> have to drag to fit, especially when I'm often opening and closing Emacs
with a shell script.

You can use the command line options when invoking emacs

emacs -xrm '*fullscreen:fullheight'
emacs -fh

These are very handy (for which thanks) but they won't suit everyone
since they might leave a partial line visible. Also, new frames are not
full height so some other method is needed if that is desired. (I like
all frames to be full height by default.)

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On 2020-02-22, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:

Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> writes:

RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your
screen? I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font >>> size — but there may be something I'm missing. It's a small annoyance to >>> have to drag to fit, especially when I'm often opening and closing Emacs >>> with a shell script.

You can use the command line options when invoking emacs

emacs -xrm '*fullscreen:fullheight'
emacs -fh

These are very handy (for which thanks) but they won't suit everyone
since they might leave a partial line visible. Also, new frames are not
full height so some other method is needed if that is desired. (I like
all frames to be full height by default.)

My usage is simple, just one frame. So far (on three computers) this has
filled the frame top to bottom. But I'm using fairly conventional desktops, Mate and Cinnamon, so that might be helping me on this.

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On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 20:57:26 +0000, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> said:

Ben> Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your
>>> screen? I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font
>>> size — but there may be something I'm missing. It's a small annoyance to
>>> have to drag to fit, especially when I'm often opening and closing Emacs
>>> with a shell script.
>>
>> You can use the command line options when invoking emacs
>>
>> emacs -xrm '*fullscreen:fullheight'
>> emacs -fh

Ben> These are very handy (for which thanks) but they won't suit everyone
Ben> since they might leave a partial line visible. Also, new frames are not
Ben> full height so some other method is needed if that is desired. (I like
Ben> all frames to be full height by default.)

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(fullscreen . fullheight))

See (info "(emacs) Frame Parameters") for more details.

Robert

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Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 20:57:26 +0000, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> said:

Ben> Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a relatively easy way to open Emacs to full vertical length of your
>>> screen? I'm guessing not, as frame(?) size seems to be determined by font
>>> size — but there may be something I'm missing. It's a small annoyance to
>>> have to drag to fit, especially when I'm often opening and closing Emacs
>>> with a shell script.
>>
>> You can use the command line options when invoking emacs
>>
>> emacs -xrm '*fullscreen:fullheight'
>> emacs -fh

Ben> These are very handy (for which thanks) but they won't suit everyone
Ben> since they might leave a partial line visible. Also, new frames are not
Ben> full height so some other method is needed if that is desired. (I like
Ben> all frames to be full height by default.)

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(fullscreen . fullheight))

Thanks. I have always done this through X resources, but that's a
useful alternative.

Frame parameters (not matter how you set them) seem to interact with
other settings (like fringe, toolbar and scrollbar sizes) in
unpredictable ways. Currently I fudge it by setting the sizes to one
more than I want, but that's slightly annoying. Is there are a setting
for "line width once all other things have been dealt with"?

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