From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: way to discriminate between Emacs.app or terminal launch of Emacs in init.el Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:53:47 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87614dbk78.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <17805043-1393-49a5-ad64-2010da9b1473@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439857410 11930 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2015 00:23:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:23:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 18 02:23:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRUgY-0008Nt-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 02:23:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35157 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRTJr-00073D-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:55:55 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 3Qd2NOzqKZl2+RQ0sDvBUwtKZZOj7dbBdfi9R38idyIEHq+48e Cancel-Lock: sha1:MmVjNzBjZjYyNzFjNGQyN2FiZWJmMDc2N2JmNTZlNjZlMzRlZWZlYw== sha1:M+d8plMIcw0Gcsm7i2Wob9O+ZJg= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214370 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106652 Archived-At: christopherpenrose@gmail.com writes: > I would like to have a logic switch in init.el that either detects > that I am launching via Terminal in OS X or launching via Emacs.app on > OS X. Is there a way to do this? > > I am quite happy using Emacs in a terminal, and am often > inconvenienced using Emacs.app for all my emacs needs, despite > netsperts who proclaim that I am gimping myself. You can use window-system It'll be nil in the terminal, and ns for Emacs.app. Other values are possible. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk