Arguments and Xdefaults
Here's a list of the more useful arguments that emacs can take. See the man page or emacs' own help for details.
- -f function
-
Execute the lisp function called function.
- -l file
- Load the lisp code in the file file.
- -font font
- Choose a font.
- -b pixels
-
Set the Emacs window's border width to the number of
pixels specified by pixels.
- -ib pixels
-
Set the window's internal border width to the number
of pixels specified by pixels. Defaults to one pixel
of padding on each side of the window.
- -w =[WIDTH][xHEIGHT][+-XOFF[+-YOFF]]
-
Set the Emacs window's width, height, and position
on the screen. The []'s denote optional arguments,
- -fg color
-
On color displays, sets the color of the text.
- -bg color
-
On color displays, sets the color of the window's
background. See the file /usr/lib/rgb.txt for a
list of valid color names.
- -bd color
-
On color displays, sets the color of the window's
border.See the file /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt for
a list of valid color names.
- -cr color
-
On color displays, sets the color of the window's
text cursor. See the file /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt.
- -ms color
-
On color displays, sets the color of the window's
mouse cursor. See the file /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt
You can also set up emacs defaults in your ~/.Xdefaults
file.
For instance, adding this to ~/.Xdefaults
will set many of
the things that could have been set from the command line
emacs.font: 6x10 emacs.geometry: 80x40+360+215 emacs.borderColor: VioletRed emacs.cursorColor: SkyBlue emacs.pointerColor: Yellow emacs.borderWidth: 1 emacs.softButtons: on emacs.foreground: PaleGreen emacs.background: DarkSlateGrey emacs.bitmapicon: on emacs.iconName: Emacs