How to maximize my Emacs height on start-up?

Question

emacs -fh would start emacs in window mode using full height available from the desktop environment. I'm tired of typing this -fh every time yet there doesn't seem to exist a command that does the same as -fh

Answer 1

There are initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist variables. Add fullscreen parameter with value fullheight in one you need.

Answer 2

If you load the library frame-cmds.el then you can place the following in your init file:

(when (display-graphic-p)
  (add-hook 'window-setup-hook #'maximize-frame-vertically))

The conditional is to make sure you are not running in a terminal window, where maximisation would not make sense.

Answer 3

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FullScreen gives a command toggle-max-frame-vertically which would only work if you download and install their frame-cmds.el.