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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: documentation typo: `--terminal' fails
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:50:38 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1JRCwg-002K4LC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtzk6fedj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:56:40 -0500)

    >> `-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'

and neither `--terminal' nor `--no-window-system' say they need an argument.

If the `--terminal' for `--no-window-system' needed a DEVICE argument
I would expect it to say

    `--terminal=DEVICE' implies `--no-window-system'

but it does not.

Perhaps this trouble is an ambiguity of the documentation?


    > 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?

/usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q -D --no-window-system 
runs an instance of Emacs.  

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-18 20:50 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 [this message]
2008-02-18 21:16         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 22:23         ` Andreas Schwab
2008-02-18 15:58     ` Andreas Schwab
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-19  1:49 Robert J. Chassell
2008-02-19  2:19 ` Stefan Monnier

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