From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TTY frames parameters
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:54:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080824215435.GA5236@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uvdxq171y.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi, Eli,
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:39:37PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> There's a strange subtle difference between the first tty frame
> created on a default terminal and all the other frames: the first one
> has its `tty' association with nil cdr, while the rest have
> "/dev/tty". Is that a bug?
What does the frame parameter tty mean? I couldn't find it described in
the Elisp manual. Surely _that_ is a bug.
> To reproduce:
> emacs -Q -nw
> M-: (frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'tty) RET => nil
> C-x 5 b foo
> M-: (frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'tty) RET => "/dev/tty"
On Emacs 22, there doesn't seem to be a frame-parameter called tty. On
Emacs 23, (running as emacs -Q on a Linux tty), I get the same symptoms
as you do.
> You will also see that in the initial frame, (frame-parameters)
> returns an alist that contains `(tty)', not `(tty . "/dev/tty")' as in
> the other frames.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-24 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-24 20:39 TTY frames parameters Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-24 21:54 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2008-08-25 3:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-30 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-31 6:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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