Specifying Emacs.Geometry in ~/.Xdefaults corrupts default-frame-alist

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From: Chris Moore
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 23:07

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In GNU Emacs 19.25.92.1 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3, X toolkit) of Fri Aug
5 1994 on sun11, I have
Emacs.Geometry: 125x45+0-0"
in my ~/.Xdefaults and
(setq default-frame-alist '((height . 11) (width . 130)
(background-color . "lavender")))
in my .emacs file.

Once Emacs has started, default-frame-alist's value is
((menu-bar-lines . 1) (background-color . "lavender")).  The height
and width parts have vanished.  If I remove the Geometry line from my
~/.Xdefaults file and xrdb it again, these parts aren't stripped from
the value of default-frame-alist.

I would expect and hope that setting an X resource Emacs.Geometry
would either put the appropriate values into default-frame-alist or
leave default-frame-alist alone entirely and just fiddle with
initial-frame-alist.  The current situation isn't nice at all...

Chris.

PS.  Is it OK to send bug reports for GNU Emacs 19.25.92 to this list,
     or should they go straight to RMS?
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