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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: way to discriminate between Emacs.app or terminal launch of Emacs in init.el
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:53:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87614dbk78.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17805043-1393-49a5-ad64-2010da9b1473@googlegroups.com

christopherpenrose@gmail.com writes:

> I would like to have a logic switch in init.el that either detects
> that I am launching via Terminal in OS X or launching via Emacs.app on
> OS X. Is there a way to do this?
>
> I am quite happy using Emacs in a terminal, and am often
> inconvenienced using Emacs.app for all my emacs needs, despite
> netsperts who proclaim that I am gimping myself.


You can use window-system
It'll be nil in the terminal, and ns for Emacs.app.
Other values are possible.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                 http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-17 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-17 22:22 way to discriminate between Emacs.app or terminal launch of Emacs in init.el christopherpenrose
2015-08-17 22:41 ` christopherpenrose
2015-08-17 22:53 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2015-08-18  0:18   ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8493.1439857145.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-18  5:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-19 11:42 ` Alexis

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