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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:20:41 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> > (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...
We could/should just get rid of it, actually.
BTW, what's up with the test (eq window-system 'pc) in
make-frame-on-tty? Does it really do something useful?
Stefan
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, (continued)
- 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, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives,
Stefan Monnier <=
- 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
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Stefan Monnier, 2008/12/31