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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dashes in mode-line
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:51:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqv6uqod.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1P8BwF-00065F-Ov@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:09:11 -0400")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:32:33 +0200
>> 
>> +         `(:eval (unless window-system
>> +                   ,(propertize "-%-" 'help-echo help-echo)))))
>
> Using window-system is not right here, because the DOS port defines a
> non-nil value, but uses a text terminal.

Can we fix that if we intend on keeping the DOS port around?

I know defining window-system to non-nil used to be the only way to
get font-lock and other features that the DOS port has had for longer
than other text terminals, but is there any reason for it now other than
historical continuity?
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-18 13:36 Dashes in mode-line Julien Danjou
2010-10-18 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-19 10:32   ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-19 13:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-19 14:59       ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-19 19:21         ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-19 15:51       ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2010-10-19 18:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-20 13:05       ` Misleading `window-system' docstring (was Re: Dashes in mode-line) Štěpán Němec
2010-10-20 18:20         ` Misleading `window-system' docstring Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-20 18:32           ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-21  0:58           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-22 10:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-19 12:29   ` Dashes in mode-line Deniz Dogan
2010-10-19 13:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-19 13:49   ` Deniz Dogan
2010-10-19 14:31     ` Eli Zaretskii

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