From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TTY frames parameters
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:13:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uskst23el.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080824215435.GA5236@muc.de>
> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:54:35 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:39:37PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > There's a strange subtle difference between the first tty frame
> > created on a default terminal and all the other frames: the first one
> > has its `tty' association with nil cdr, while the rest have
> > "/dev/tty". Is that a bug?
>
> What does the frame parameter tty mean?
It's a device on which the terminal frame is displayed. More
specifically, the calls to fwrite Emacs does to write glyphs as part
of the frame's display go to a FILE stream open on this device.
> I couldn't find it described in the Elisp manual. Surely _that_ is
> a bug.
This parameter was introduced by the mult-tty feature. None of that
is documented yet, except very minimally in etc/NEWS.
> On Emacs 22, there doesn't seem to be a frame-parameter called tty. On
> Emacs 23, (running as emacs -Q on a Linux tty), I get the same symptoms
> as you do.
Thanks for testing. I hope someone will be able to answer my
question.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-25 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-24 20:39 TTY frames parameters Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-24 21:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-25 3:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-08-30 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-31 6:12 ` Stefan Monnier
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