Re: Missing frame parameters on tty's

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:03:32 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> > I'd suggest something like
> 
> >   (Note that none of these parameters exist on text-mode frames.)
> 
> OK, but I'm not too keen on "text-mode" frames - there's a danger of
> confusion with the major mode of that name.  How about:
> 
>     (Note that none of these parameters exist on text terminal frames.}
> 
> , using the original term "text terminal", but keeping the sentence in
> parenteses?  After all, the main purpose is to alert Emacs Lisp hackers
> to the possibility of these frame parameters being nil; exactly when
> they are going to be nil is of secondary importance.

The official terminology is "TTY frames" or "text-mode frames".  But I
won't insist.