From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: bob@rattlesnake.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: documentation typo: `--terminal' fails
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:58:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je7ih245og.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1JR8HM-002K4LC@rattlesnake.com> (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon\, 18 Feb 2008 15\:51\:40 +0000 \(UTC\)")
"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
> > `-t DEVICE'
> > `--terminal=DEVICE'
> > Use DEVICE as the device for terminal input and output.
> > `--terminal' implies `--no-window-system'.
>
> In which way is this wrong?
>
> It fails to run Emacs although
In which way does it fail when used as documented?
>
> $ /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q -D --no-window-system
>
> does.
Does what?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 14:26 documentation typo: `--terminal' fails Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-18 14:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-02-18 15:51 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-18 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 20:50 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-18 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 22:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-02-18 15:58 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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2008-02-19 1:49 Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-19 2:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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