From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Terminal only emacs question Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:10:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87a6xezv08.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <20200924220106.way5eue2tmykuhgy.ref@Ergus> <20200924220106.way5eue2tmykuhgy@Ergus> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23518"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KWRyTv+Y2ejVuzoAXU71bEN/Nj0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 00:11:15 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kLZSN-000625-Mz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:11:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36224 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLZSM-00022I-OB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLZRX-000219-Rv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:41226 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLZRW-0001Ew-B4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kLZRT-00051B-LO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2020 00:10:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/24 18:10:19 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124173 Archived-At: Ergus wrote: > Whats the way to determine in the init file if > a emacs is running under a terminal emulator or the > linux console? Well, the Linux console, AKA the Linux VTs (virtual terminals), is also a terminal emulator, "emulator" and "virtual" here denotes the same thing, i.e. that it isn't a physical terminal. > I need this to condition the load of xterm-mouse-mode > or gpm-mouse-mode. I tried getenv but for some reason > inside emacs it is always "dumb". OK, you tried `getenv', but with what? > Any idea? Check out the variable `window-system'... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal