Re: How to detect if Emacs is running in a terminal

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.04.2005 um 01:42 schrieb Pascal Bourguignon:

> > (cond ((= 21 emacs-major-version)
> >    (progn
> >      (desktop-read)
> >      (cond ((string= "x" window-system)
>
> There is this notion of a symbol in List & Intelligent Symbol 
> Processing
> language.  Perhaps you read some about it...

That might have happend. I read/browsed a few times in the Elisp info 
nodes since I am European and have to struggle like Laokoon with 
charsets and encodings and other snails, and the words you use remind 
me of things I have read or heard before ... in ads?

Is it that I compare strings? `window-system´ is documented as being, a 
bit metaphorical, a symbol. The value can be an `x´, which looks like a 
very short string. So I imagined a string comparison should be OK ...

Or is it that I do not quote the symbol?

> Try: M-x info RET m elisp RET m symbols RET

Today I can't find the right pointer that would help my understanding 
-- I am a bit old today too and Lisp (and other programming languages) 
are hard to decipher and even harder to write for me. I think awk, sed, 
and shell are fine for programming ...

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  Pete

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