From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: documentation typo: `--terminal' fails Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:52:58 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203346397 16823 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2008 14:53:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bob@rattlesnake.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 15:53:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JR7NC-000171-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:53:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JR7Mh-0008G7-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:53:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JR7Me-0008Fg-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:53:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JR7Mc-0008FQ-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:53:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JR7Mc-0008FN-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JR7Mc-0000a1-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F67B351C2; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:52:59 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I am a traffic light, and Alan Ginsberg kidnapped my laundry in 1927! In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon\, 18 Feb 2008 14\:26\:04 +0000 \(UTC\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89478 Archived-At: "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > When I run both in an xterm in an X windowing system and in a console > with no X: > > $ /usr/local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q -D --terminal > > we see > > emacs: Option `--terminal' requires an argument > > so the documentation in > > (info "(emacs)Initial Options") > > is wrong. It says: > > `-t DEVICE' > `--terminal=3DDEVICE' > Use DEVICE as the device for terminal input and output. > `--terminal' implies `--no-window-system'. In which way is this wrong? Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."