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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:20:32 -0800 (PST) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > (make-frame '((terminal DESCRIPTOR)
> > (terminal-type TYPE)))
>
> > I think this is not very different from the current situation, as
> > regards Lisp calls. The reason for make-frame-on-display and
> > make-frame-on-tty is for invocation with M-x, where you need to
> > specify the terminal with a string.
>
> > These commands could be merged by using a heuristic to
> > tell whether the argument is a tty device or an X server.
>
> I don't think it's important to merge them. More important is to make
> it clear why they exist. E.g. by marking them as "not for use from
> Elisp" and/or by documenting which `make-frame' call is equivalent when
> called from Elisp.
BTW is `make-frame-on-tty' useful as an interactive function? What
would the use-case be for that? I'd say: drop the interactive spec for it...
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, (continued)
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/27
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Chong Yidong, 2008/12/27
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/28
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/28
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Chong Yidong, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/12/29
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/12/31
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Richard M Stallman, 2008/12/31