From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: window-system and batch mode
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:44:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4mlk9id9js.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvr6jbjdbt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
>>>>> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Recently Emacs sets `window-system' to t in the batch mode:
>> emacs -batch -Q -eval '(message "%s" window-system)'
>> t
>> Shouldn't it be nil?
>> I think that is a bug, and it should be nil.
>> Would someone please DTRT then ack?
> Done,
Confirmed. Thanks.
>>>>> Richard Stallman wrote:
> However, the right way to test for batch mode is `noninteractive'.
> That is documented in the Lisp Manual.
I see. I verified Gnus uses `noninteractive' properly for
`gnus-batch-kill'. Only `gnus-batch-kill' seems to be a non-
interactive feature that Gnus explicitly supports, so I don't
add something useful for the batch mode to other Gnus functions
for the moment. FYI, my crontab entry is in the next page.
OTOH, the usages of `window-system' are not all necessarily
proper. For instance, `mailcap-mime-data' inhibits some X
applications if Emacs runs in tty even if it runs in the local
X window system. Gnus may assume that nil for `window-system'
means a user uses a teletype in a far place, though.
\f
crontab -l
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
15 6 * * * rm -f ~/#.newsrc-dribble# ~/.newsrc-dribble; emacs -batch\
-u yamaoka -l gnus --eval '(let ((gnus-batch-mode t)) (gnus 1))'\
-f gnus-group-quit
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
`-u yamaoka' is similar to `-l ~yamaoka/.emacs'. Binding
`gnus-batch-mode' to t makes Gnus not make query when opening a
primary (nntp, in my case) server fails. The argument `1'
passed to `gnus' means fetching only new mails (the group levels
of my mail groups are all `1').
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-30 2:35 window-system and batch mode Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-10-30 8:22 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-31 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-01 1:44 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2007-10-30 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
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