From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: installing emacs and X11 on OS X Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:14:48 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DBEC208.8020207@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035911963 12991 80.91.224.249 (29 Oct 2002 17:19:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186a1Q-0003N9-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:19:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186Zz4-0001Jt-00; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:16:54 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1035911684 3156367 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106513 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3061 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3061 Hugo Wolf wrote: > In article , Eli > Zaretskii wrote: > >>As >>another example, it doesn't fit into the future Emacs model where GUI and >>text (a.k.a. tty) frames can be supported in the same session. >> > > This suggests that the abstract concept of "runtime window system" is > perfectly valid but that's it's frame-specific. I have no problem > with that at all. In fact I like it. I'm not wedded to the variable > 'window-system'. I'm using it now because I have no choice now -- > this is one and only hook emacs provides me. What it's important to > me is the concept, not the access point. Cool. So window-system becomes a frame parameter. And if it's passed to make-frame, it determines what kind of frame to create. Nice and clean. -- Kevin Rodgers