Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:25:55 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> There *was* such a change, I know this, because I read it in a
> >> recent book on Linux and shell programming - a big, white book
> >> with all the tools alphabetically, and with a big section on
> >> Emacs (and one on vim - no bias!).
> >
> > Well, if there is such a book, and if it says what you say it
> > says, then that book is simply wrong.  Emacs behaves like it
> > does today for a very long time.  "A couple of versions" is
> > definitely wrong.  If you'd say it was some time when Emacs 19.x
> > was being released, I could believe you.
> 
> Just be patient, I'll get the exact quote.

FWIW, etc/NEWS.18 has this snippet:

  * New startup command line options.

  [...]

  `-nw' means don't use a window system.  If you are using a terminal
  emulator on the X window system and you want to run Emacs to work through
  the terminal emulator instead of working directly with the window system,
  use this switch.

There's no minor version near this announcement, but the surrounding
text indicates that this was introduced in version 18.41.  According
to this:

   http://www.informatica.co.cr/unix/research/1987/0322.htm

Emacs 18.41 was released in Mar 1987.  (I think the first Emacs
version I used was 19.20 or some such.)