I am new to StackOverflow and I have a question about an issue that has been virtually the only thing to irk me in my quest to master Emacs.

I configured my .emacs file to set the default frame size for Emacs to 70 rows and 80 columns like so:

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(left . 0))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(top . 0))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . 70))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width . 80))

This works fine when starting Emacs, the problem is that when I launch a new frame using new-frame or emacsclient -c these settings are not respected. Is there a way to force emacsclient and new-frame to read the settings in the .emacs file when they are executed?

Edit:

Here is my .emacs file:

;;This setting is meant to force emacs to read size settings before make-frame.

(add-hook 'before-make-frame-hook
      #'(lambda ()
          (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(left   . 0))
          (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(top    . 0))
          (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . 70))
          (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width  . 80))))

;;disable annoying welcome screen.
(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/bin/abcl")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime/")
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.lisp$" . lisp-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.cl$" . lisp-mode))
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.asd$" . lisp-mode))
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)
(eval-after-load "slime"
 '(progn
   (setq slime-complete-symbol*-fancy t
      slime-complete-symbol-function 'slime-fuzzy-complete-symbol
      slime-when-complete-filename-expand t
      slime-truncate-lines nil
      slime-autodoc-use-multiline-p t)
(slime-setup '(slime-fancy slime-asdf))
(define-key
emacs elisp dot-emacs emacsclient
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