Re: Window size specification ignored

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.09.2005 um 02:58 schrieb August Karlstrom:

> Am I missing something?

At least the correct Ubuntu ps syntax ... I am using a BSD style ps. 
'man ps', inside Emacs as 'M-x manual-entry ps' or F1 F2, should be 
your friend. And it's worth doing the experiments inside GNU Emacs in 
its shell buffer.


Ubuntu's setup with so many sym-links reminds of Fink for Mac OS X: I 
never knew exactly which file now was executing, and even worse: the 
Fink folks messed up the site specific things with a lot of 
intermediate and extra files that loaded each others for unknown 
reasons (it is similiar to some so-called Carbon Emacsen). Do you have 
an idea how much longer it takes to launch Fink's GNU Emacs 21.3.50 
with -Q then without -Q? Minutes. Really.

Beside this I have the feeling that Ubuntu is using a pretty old Emacs. 
Have you checked its version? This could explain that it does not 
understand -Q. Apple's gift of GNU Emacs 21.2, for use inside a 
terminal emulation only, does not understand -Q too.

Are you able to 'trace' a programme's execution, i.e. follow it opening 
and closing files, doing system calls, receiving signals etc? This way 
you would find which Ubuntu specific Elisp files were executed at 
start-up ... but it's much easier to get GNU Emacs 22.0.50 from CVS and 
compile it yourself. A (much better then) nice'd 'make bootstrap' in 
the background will take one or two hours while you're having 
breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or going shopping -- it should be more 
satisfactory in the end! To do this you'll need many Ubuntu dev 
packages, containing C header files needed for 'dev-elopment', i.e. 
compiling a software.

--
Greetings

  Pete

Without vi there is only GNU Emacs