From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to check the -nw option? Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 04:40:06 GMT Organization: Sonera Customer Message-ID: <871vqw1cd5.fsf@iki.fi> References: <531ebed1-6f79-46d7-b1bf-f9c52b85517b@x1g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242016858 1449 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2009 04:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 04:40:58 +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 May 11 06:40:50 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 1M3NJp-0000mi-La for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 06:40:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M3NJp-0008TZ-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2009 00:40:49 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder2.news.saunalahti.fi!feeder1.news.saunalahti.fi!nntp.inet.fi!central1.inet.fi!inet.fi!read4.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iFpQx+FPeJeoI/e5n91JB813jU4= Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.220.180.181 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi Original-X-Trace: read4.inet.fi 1242016806 80.220.180.181 (Mon, 11 May 2009 07:40:06 EEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 07:40:06 EEST Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169071 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:64334 Archived-At: On 2009-05-10 18:37 (-0700), Kiwon Um wrote: > Some modes do not work with terminal base, i.e. no-window-system (-nw) > emacs. So I want to write my .emacs with checking if it's no-window- > emacs emacs or not. How I can check this? Check the variable "window-system". Its value is nil if Emacs is not running in a window system. The manual section is here: M-x elisp-index-search RET window-system RET