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Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:18:19 +0200 |
> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:28:59 -0500
>
> > But there's no delete-tty or suspend-terminal.
>
> That seems consistent to me. The delete-terminal function does
> something useful on both text and graphical terminals: for ttys, it
> returns control of the tty to the shell; on X, it closes the X
> connection. On the other hand, suspending only makes sense for
> text-only terminals: it is used to temporarily return control to the
> shell. There is no analogous operation on graphical displays. Thus, we
> provide suspend-tty rather than suspend-terminal.
I think you are wrong about suspend making no sense on GUI terminals:
we have (in Emacs 23) suspend-frame that does work on GUI.
Anyway, the examples I gave were just that: examples. Here's another
example: we have make-frame-on-display, make-frame-on-tty, and
make-terminal-frame; and then we have make-frame that can do all of
the above. IMO, it's terribly confusing.
But again, maybe I'm the only one who is confused. My confusion is
exasperated by the fact that I cannot find any useful methodical way
to describe all these functions with partially overlapping
functionality in the ELisp manual. Suggestions welcome...
- Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/27
- 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, 2008/12/27
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Chong Yidong, 2008/12/27
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- 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, 2008/12/30
- Re: Terminology in multi-tty primitives, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/12/30