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From: Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Subject: How to detect if Emacs is running in a terminal
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:10:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dbd4d0005041508105e3824b6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Is there some emacs lisp function that I could call to detect whether
the current emacs process is running from within a terminal or not?

I'd like to be able to change my font-lock faces based on whether
emacs is running in a terminal or not. At the moment I deal with this
in the following way.

I have a .emacs-common which contains code that should be loaded
regardless of the emacs interface. My .emacs is of course loaded by
default whenever I run Emacs in a window (not in a terminal). This
contains various font settings and colors used in the windowed Emacs.
I have a .emacs-terminal which contains various font settings and
colors used in the terminal Emacs.

So, when I want to use Emacs in the terminal, I run:

    emacs -nw -q -l ~/.emacs-terminal

Is there a better way?

-- 
Denis Bueno
PGP: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xA1B51B4B&op=index

             reply	other threads:[~2005-04-15 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-15 15:10 Denis Bueno [this message]
2005-04-15 22:56 ` How to detect if Emacs is running in a terminal Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.1688.1113606088.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-15 23:42   ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-04-16 15:30     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] <mailman.1647.1113578084.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-15 15:32 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-15 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-15 16:11 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-04-16 12:05   ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1726.1113653312.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-16 12:18     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-16 14:20       ` Reiner Steib

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