From: Schone Mullerin <smullerin@deutsches.lieder.net>
Subject: Re: installing emacs and X11 on OS X
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:15:10 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnarr6kl.2rd.smullerin@esb.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1035832709.18867.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.1035832709.18867.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>, Eli
Zaretskii wrote:
> Then perhaps a bug report is on order, with a request to provide a way
> to distinguish the two configurations you are interested in.
Of course there already is a nice clean way to make this distinction,
because emacs already has a variable which captures exactly the right
information. That variable is window-system. The only bug is that
it's deprecated.
Are you suggesting a bug report that says "either un-deprecate
window-system or provide an alternative, since it provides information
that isn't otherwise available by any other means"? If so, we've
reached agreement.
>> and even you don't
>> seem to be able to find anything other than window-system that works
>> for this. Doesn't that tell you something?
>
> No, not really. What should that tell me?
That in emacs as it stands today, window-system is essential. What
other conclusion could there be? From which it follows that it's the
right variable to use in some cases -- in fact, in this very one we're
discussing. From that it follows that the blanket condemnations of
all uses of window-system can't possibly be right.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1035784882.23705.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-28 12:45 ` installing emacs and X11 on OS X Hugo Wolf
2002-10-28 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1035832709.18867.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-28 20:15 ` Schone Mullerin [this message]
2002-10-29 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-28 21:25 ` Thomas F. Burdick
2002-10-29 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-29 15:41 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-10-29 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1035924479.14908.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-29 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
[not found] <mailman.1035870384.15595.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-29 13:42 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-29 17:14 ` Kevin Rodgers
2002-10-29 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1035924328.7472.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-29 21:17 ` Schone Mullerin
[not found] <mailman.1035438509.9019.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-24 6:59 ` John Paul Wallington
[not found] <mailman.1035334713.26558.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-23 8:54 ` Joseph Kiniry
2002-10-23 12:04 ` Michael Hudson
2002-10-23 12:14 ` Piet van Oostrum
2002-10-23 13:01 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-23 14:08 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-10-24 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-24 12:43 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-24 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1035484120.27029.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-24 20:01 ` Schone Mullerin
2002-10-26 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1035620182.18482.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-26 14:39 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-26 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1035645140.22359.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-26 21:41 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-26 21:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1035672257.29530.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-27 15:07 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-27 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-10-27 16:14 ` Piet van Oostrum
2002-10-27 19:47 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-27 19:13 ` Thomas F. Burdick
2002-10-27 19:53 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-28 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1035737630.1161.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-27 20:08 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-27 20:33 ` Chris Lott
2002-10-23 12:53 ` Hugo Wolf
2002-10-23 0:53 Hugues Joly
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