[OS X Emacs] Interactive window dimension feedback during resize?

Ian Eure ian at digg.com
Wed Jan 21 17:56:28 EST 2009


On Jan 21, 2009, at 1:06 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

> Is it possible to get interactive feedback on the dimensions of a  
> frame
> during resize?  I personally prefer 80-column wide windows when  
> programming.
> Even if I didn't care about this for myself many collaborative  
> projects
> (e.g., Python) have coding standards about line length.  It would be  
> nice
> when resizing a frame to get interactive feedback on its current
> dimensions.  Currently I seem to have to stop the resize and execute
> (window-width) to see how wide the frame is.  Maybe it's there  
> somewhere but
> I'm just not seeing it?
>
M-: (set-frame-parameter nil 'width 80) RET

  - Ian



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