Re: Proggy? Howto get Aquamacs in vanilla state?

On 21 Aug 2007, at 16:53, cons spam wrote:

> 2) Can someone please tell me how I can get Aquamacs to use my
> .emacs-settings for initial font and frame position/size

You probably just want to turn off aquamacs-styles-mode.

> and just
> leave all those customizations.el, frame-positions.el, Preferences.el
> and everything else that is auto-created every time I quit Aquamacs
> and that overrides my .emacs-settings,

They will always be created, but do not necessarily overwrite anything.
Just move the customization stuff (set-custom-variables) from  
your .emacs to customizations.el and you'll be fine!

> I just want
> to put in my .emacs and go! (I DON'T want to cut'n'paste out some
> parts of it and put it in new files here and there, just to glue it
> back again when migrating to yet another platform next month)

customize `custom-file'. Not sure if that'll be perfect, of course.


> This is what I've done so far:
>
> Turn-off stuff (as recommended in the docs):
> * unchecked options->frame appearance styles->frame appearance styles
> * in .emacs: (smart-frame-positioning-mode nil)
> * in .emacs: (aquamacs-styles-mode nil)

good.

> Set my stuff (as I always have done, and always want to do):
> * in .emacs: (setq default-frame-alist blah blah...)
> * in .emacs: (set-face-font 'default blah blah...)
> * in. emacs: (desktop-change-dir blah blah...)

Have you thought of initial-frame-alist ?


> but Aquamacs still always use its own font and own initial frame size
> and position.

Frame size and position are determined before your .emacs is read,  
and that is the case for all Emacsen afaik. But if you use the  
initial-frame-alist variable, it should be applied after reading  
your .emacs.


> One VERY strange thing is that Aquamacs actually gets
> the font right if set-face-font is executed AFTER desktop-change-dir
> instead of before(!). Very weird...

Not weird - here's what desktop-change-dir seems to do:

Change to desktop saved in dirname.
Kill the desktop as specified by variables `desktop-save-mode' and
`desktop-save', then clear the desktop and load the desktop file in
directory dirname.

Finally, as Kevin and I said over in aquamacs-devel - why not try  
Carbon Emacs Package?

I would like to offer Aquamacs for GNU/Linux and also Windows. But  
somebody with expertise on these systems is going to have to put the  
work in.

- D

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