From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: documentation typo: `--terminal' fails
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:49:42 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1JRHc6-002K4LC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
But the documentation also doesn't mention that --terminal is
a valid argument.
Since it says `--terminal' implies `--no-window-system'.
I think it is fair to presume that `--terminal' is a valid argument.
I suggest we replace "`--terminal'" with
"This argument" or just "This".
That does not make it the same as `--no-window-system' or `-nw' which
is how I understand the documentation
`--terminal' implies `--no-window-system'.
Incidently,
(info "(emacs) Emacs Invocation")
says
GNU Emacs supports command line arguments to request various actions
when invoking Emacs.
`--terminal=DEVICE', `--display=DISPLAY', and `--no-window-system' are
called `initial options' both in that node and in the subnode
(info "(emacs) Initial Options")
> If the `--terminal' for `--no-window-system' needed a DEVICE argument
> I would expect it to say
>
> `--terminal=DEVICE' implies `--no-window-system'
The argument is not part of the option name.
Perhaps to an expert that is true, but when the documentation says
`--terminal' implies `--no-window-system'
I do not expect it to mean
`--terminal=DEVICE' implies `--no-window-system'
That is why I asked,
Perhaps this trouble is an ambiguity of the documentation?
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2008-02-19 1:49 Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2008-02-19 2:19 ` documentation typo: `--terminal' fails Stefan Monnier
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2008-02-18 14:26 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
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