From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Detect if Emacs is running in -nw mode
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:18:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-161C6E.22185730032008@newsgroups.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m34papoxpo.fsf@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de
In article <m34papoxpo.fsf@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de>,
Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> > Is there something when NOT, so that I could set
> > [PSEUDO-CODE]:
> > (when not (window-system)
> > (menu-bar-mode nil)
> > (other commands i want to use when not windowed))
>
> You can test whether the DISPLAY environment variable is set using
>
> (getenv "DISPLAY")
>
> In this way you can distinguish between emacs -nw running in an X
> or a "pure tty" environment. Is that what you want?
There are other window systems besides X.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-29 22:37 Detect if Emacs is running in -nw mode Christian Herenz
2008-03-29 22:43 ` Tom Rauchenwald
[not found] ` <mailman.9603.1206831074.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-29 23:52 ` Christian Herenz
2008-03-30 0:35 ` Roland Winkler
2008-03-31 2:18 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2008-03-30 0:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-30 1:13 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9613.1206837866.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-30 1:10 ` Will Parsons
2008-03-30 1:22 ` Christian Herenz
2008-03-30 3:34 ` BVK
2008-03-30 11:23 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-03-30 12:17 ` Christian Herenz
2008-03-30 12:43 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.9635.1206881018.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-30 14:24 ` Christian Herenz
2008-03-30 14:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-30 15:13 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.9643.1206890035.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-30 15:31 ` Christian Herenz
[not found] ` <mailman.9641.1206888365.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-30 16:10 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-03-30 17:56 ` Christian Herenz
2008-03-31 7:32 ` Nuno J. Silva
2008-03-31 8:11 ` Tim X
2008-03-31 8:34 ` Christian Herenz
2008-03-31 2:22 ` Barry Margolin
2008-03-31 8:38 ` Christian Herenz
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