[ESS] help frame size

[Seb]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:32:39 -0700,
Vinh Nguyen <vqnguyen at uci.edu> wrote:

> Dear list, I have "(setq ess-help-own-frame 'one)" in my init file to
> get emacs to open the help buffers in a new frame.  Despite having the
> following in the init file to set the default frame size,

> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . 33)) (add-to-list
> 'default-frame-alist '(width . 80))

> the new frame is still small.  How can I customize the frame size of
> the help buffers?

You need to set this variable, which works just as
`default-frame-alist':

,-----[ C-h v ess-help-frame-alist RET ]
| ess-help-frame-alist's value is shown below.
| 
|   This variable is potentially risky when used as a file local variable.
| 
| Documentation:
| Alist of frame parameters used to create help frames.
| This defaults to `special-display-frame-alist' and is used only when
| the variable `ess-help-own-frame' is non-nil.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Value: 
| ((height . 50)
|  (width . 90)
|  (alpha 97 . 95)
|  (unsplittable . t)
|  (tool-bar-lines . 0)
|  (menu-bar-lines . 0)
|  (font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10")
|  (top . 0)
|  (left . 0)
|  (foreground-color . "wheat")
|  (background-color . "gray25"))
| 
| [back]
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