From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:10:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1P3s71-0007h6-40@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i8kl4p$ca1$1@dough.gmane.org> (message from Gary on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:23:21 +0200)
> From: Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>
> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:23:21 +0200
> Mail-Copies-To: never
>
> >> emacs-nox:
> >> [...]
> >> windows-nt
> >
> > Yes: the former is a text terminal, the latter is a GUI session.
> > Emacs cannot control the fonts and default colors of a text terminal.
> > It can do that on a graphics display.
>
> Can I persuade it to not do it on a graphics display :)
I don't think so. Unlike text terminals, where there's already a font
and some colors when Emacs starts, for a GUI window Emacs _must_
specify something, because there are no defaults. AFAIK, at least.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-07 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 9:01 Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt Gary
2010-10-07 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-07 14:23 ` Gary
2010-10-07 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-10-07 20:45 ` Thomas Bulka
2010-10-08 8:13 ` Gary
2010-10-08 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-08 11:00 ` Gary
2010-10-08 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-20 8:37 ` Gary
2010-10-20 8:59 ` Gary
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1287565213.18510.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-20 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1286535662.6837.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-08 22:18 ` Tim X
2010-10-08 15:14 ` Thomas Bulka
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