Re: trouble writing a conditional, or with lambda

[Thomas Gehrlein]

Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com> writes:

> some basic lisp, I'm afraid, but I did consult the manual and tested
> in lisp-interaction-mode, but did not get any the wiser.
> 
> I'm trying to get a function to work differently depending on whether
> emacs runs under X or on a terminal:

Not tested:

(if (eq window-system nil) 
    ;; running under a terminal
    (progn
      (split-window)
      (switch-to-buffer "*foo*"))
  ;; running under a window system
  (select-frame (make-frame))
  (set-frame-size (selected-frame) 50 24)
  (set-frame-position (selected-frame) 150 120))

Thomas