From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you determine the running environment while in emacs? Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:58:20 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1232837963.358307@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <660e6c4d-23f1-4354-92d5-ad7971364104@n21g2000vba.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232840450 26846 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2009 23:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 00:42:03 2009 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 1LQs8Z-0005XX-Al for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:42:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60597 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQs7H-00037W-QE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:40:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1232838029 10698 143.93.54.11 (24 Jan 2009 23:00:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:00:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: <660e6c4d-23f1-4354-92d5-ad7971364104@n21g2000vba.googlegroups.com> Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-088-069-052-190.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166294 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:61616 Archived-At: Mason Smith wrote: > I'd like to write some code for .emacs buffer that will only run if > I'm not in terminal window. How can I tell from inside emacs whether > or not I'm running in a terminal? I've looked around the emacs manual > but can't seem to find anything. > > Mason window-system is a variable defined in `C source code'. Its value is x Documentation: Name of window system that Emacs is displaying through. The value is a symbol--for instance, `x' for X windows. The value is nil if Emacs is using a text-only terminal. -ap