From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 18637@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:23:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12fc196e-cc82-4f22-8d2f-cede95542ea7@default> (raw)
In (elisp) `Basic Parameters' I see this description of frame parameter
`display':
The display on which to open this frame. It should be a string of
the form `"HOST:DPY.SCREEN"', just like the `DISPLAY' environment
variable.
But if I evaluate `(frame-parameters)' on MS Windows I see this value
for parameter `display': "w32".
"w32" does not seem to fit the form `"HOST:DPY.SCREEN"'. What gives?
And why is that string surrounded by `...'? And why aren't the
components of that "form" described: What are acceptable values for
HOST, DPY, and SCREEN?
(I assume that the `:' and `.' are to be taken literally here, and that
HOST, DPY, and SCREEN are placeholders, although there is zero
explanation of this.)
Also, I searched the manual case-sensitively for DISPLAY, and found no description/specification/explanation of "the `DISPLAY' environment variable. So referring users to that env var to find a specification
of the form `"HOST:DPY.SCREEN"' is unhelpful and misleading.
Please clear up this doc - make it properly specify what form the value
of parameter `display' takes.
In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2014-09-15 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 117884 dancol@dancol.org-20140915050944-sqsajysnwef51f9m
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
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2014-10-06 17:25 ` bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows Drew Adams
2014-10-05 19:23 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-10-05 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-05 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-06 18:08 ` Andy Moreton
2014-10-06 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-07 18:35 ` Andy Moreton
2014-10-07 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-06 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-06 20:52 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-10-07 18:12 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-07 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-10-07 18:31 ` Drew Adams
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2014-10-06 16:31 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-06 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-10-06 2:55 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-06 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-06 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-06 2:55 ` Drew Adams
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