From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: documentation typo: `--terminal' fails Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:23:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203373462 22638 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2008 22:24:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 23:24:46 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JREPe-0001cM-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:24:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JREP9-0005WO-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:24:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JREOf-0005K9-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JREOe-0005Jo-G3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:23:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JREOe-0005Jj-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:23:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JREOe-0007Kz-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:23:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7867E34E12; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:23:33 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Let's go to CHURCH! In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon\, 18 Feb 2008 20\:50\:38 +0000 \(UTC\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89529 Archived-At: "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > >> `-t DEVICE' > >> `--terminal=3DDEVICE' > >> 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 > > $ /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q -D --no-window-system > > does. > > Because you forgot the DEVICE argument, which is clearly required > according to the documentation you quoted. > > No, the documentation clearly says that > > `--terminal' implies `--no-window-system' > > and neither `--terminal' nor `--no-window-system' say they need an argu= ment. The doc clearly says that --terminal requires an argument. > If the `--terminal' for `--no-window-system' needed a DEVICE argument > I would expect it to say > > `--terminal=3DDEVICE' implies `--no-window-system' The argument is not part of the option name. > Perhaps this trouble is an ambiguity of the documentation? There is no ambiguity in referring to the option as --terminal. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."