From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Detect if Emacs is running in -nw mode Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:18:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206931242 4900 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2008 02:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 04:41:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jg9xO-0007D8-Ka for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:41:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg9wm-0000nA-On for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:18:57 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b2 (Intel Mac OS X) Original-Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.108.171 Original-X-Trace: sv3-t4qJp3CMYwXDwOYZeabGbyebhHOe38VffwQdDkvNzQjygyia0+C4yC7SOxBjMjXEJrBQ5gqqgAzsgno!gDZMBanV17zxb7sTuxMTmhXUwSXSmQDdLSf6QHcXjM6qKegRAJis7L5wL/NkgrsAEjUjZ7kHbJsm!Bo2Ghoj1Zn/vYWeXb5TJ0AYBETCz2b8zsOK3XDI= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.37 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157502 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52871 Archived-At: In article , Roland Winkler wrote: > Christian Herenz writes: > > Is there something when NOT, so that I could set > > [PSEUDO-CODE]: > > (when not (window-system) > > (menu-bar-mode nil) > > (other commands i want to use when not windowed)) > > You can test whether the DISPLAY environment variable is set using > > (getenv "DISPLAY") > > In this way you can distinguish between emacs -nw running in an X > or a "pure tty" environment. Is that what you want? There are other window systems besides X. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***