From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: installing emacs and X11 on OS X
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:53:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2950-Sun27Oct2002185342+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <GiTu9.128720$zE6.436070@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net> (message from Hugo Wolf on Sun, 27 Oct 2002 15:07:18 GMT)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Hugo Wolf <hwolf@deutsches.lieder.net>
> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 15:07:18 GMT
>
> Thank you. Finally a _sensible_ reason to avoid using this variable.
> Not because it's semantically or morally wrong, as has been claimed so
> far -- in fact, it's exactly right -- but because it's deprecated. I
> probably shouldn't ask why this little issue wasn't mentioned earlier
> in the discussion...
Because I never realized that this aspect has such a profound meaning
for you. Most people to whom I explained this in the past were
convinced by the other issues I mentioned in this thread.
> > (and (eq system-type 'macos) (display-graphic-p))
>
> There's no logical difference I can see between this and (eq
> window-system 'mac)
There's a significant difference: system-type has a precise and fixed
meaning -- the OS on which Emacs runs -- while window-system's
semantics is vague and changes with time.
> The only problem with this is that I can't use it in xemacs, which
> doesn't have display-graphic-p.
Hopefully, they will in the future. In the meantime, you could pick
up the simple definitions of the display-*-p functions from Emacs,
which I think should work in XEmacs with minimal changes, and plant
them into your .emacs conditioned on XEmacs.
> Thanks again for a real answer. This is much more useful than all the
> earlier posturing.
You are welcome. It's sometimes hard to know what will be the
convincing argument; sorry I didn't think about this one before.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1035334713.26558.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-23 8:54 ` installing emacs and X11 on OS X 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 [this message]
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
[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.1035784882.23705.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-28 12:45 ` 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
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.1035438509.9019.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-24 6:59 ` John Paul Wallington
2002-10-23 0:53 Hugues Joly
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