From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: bob@rattlesnake.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: documentation typo: `--terminal' fails
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:16:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpruuc6hi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1JRCwg-002K4LC@rattlesnake.com> (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:50:38 +0000 (UTC)")
>>> `-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
>> $ /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'
But the documentation also doesn't mention that --terminal is
a valid argument. So I think your interpretation is pretty far fetched,
but obviously you disagree. I suggest we replace "`--terminal'" with
"This argument" or just "This".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 21:16 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 [this message]
2008-02-18 22:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-02-18 15:58 ` Andreas Schwab
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2008-02-19 1:49 Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-19 2:19 ` Stefan Monnier
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