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Re: Display-local settings (was: It is time for a feature freeze)


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Display-local settings (was: It is time for a feature freeze)
Date: 16 Apr 2004 22:38:15 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> > I don't see how.  After all, we are not talking about the
> > _possibility_ of having a menu-bar or not (that's trivial), but about
> > the default for creation of new frames.  And as far as I can tell,
> > you can't set different defaults for different displays.
> 
> But it's like mode-local variables.  We don't have those, but we can
> simulate them with buffer-local variables.

Almost every mode has a startup hook.

> So frame-local settings are sufficient as long as we get a chance to
> dynamically setup those parameters whenever a new frame is created.

We currently only have

frame-creation-function's value is 
x-create-frame-with-faces

Window-system dependent function to call to create a new frame.
The window system startup file should set this to its frame creation
function, which should take an alist of parameters as its argument.

Defined in `frame'.

[back]

That's hardly sufficient.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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