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Inaccurate paragraph in (info "(elisp)Terminal-Specific")
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Daniel Brockman |
Subject: |
Inaccurate paragraph in (info "(elisp)Terminal-Specific") |
Date: |
Sat, 13 May 2006 04:46:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
>From (info "(elisp)Terminal-Specific"):
When the name of the terminal type contains a hyphen,
only the part of the name before the first hyphen is
significant in choosing the library name. Thus, terminal
types `aaa-48' and `aaa-30-rv' both use the
`term/aaa' library. If necessary, the library can
evaluate `(getenv "TERM")' to find the full name of the
terminal type.
The code actually looks like this:
(while (and term
(not (load (concat term-file-prefix term) t t)))
;; Strip off last hyphen and what follows, then try again
(setq term
(if (setq hyphend (string-match "[-_][^-_]+\\'" term))
(substring term 0 hyphend)
nil)))
So it is inaccurate to say that ``only the part of the name
before the first hyphen is significant.''
I suggest the following text:
When no matching library is found and the name of the
terminal type contains a hyphen, the last hyphen and
everything that follows is stripped from the terminal
type name and another attempt is made. This process is
continued recursively until a matching library is found,
or there are no more hyphens in the name. For example,
the terminal types `aaa-48' and `aaa-30-rv' both use the
`term/aaa' library. (If necessary, the library can
evaluate `(getenv "TERM")' to find the full name of the
terminal type.)
--
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>
``For any given feature, I don't care much about the
people who find it useless --- I care more about
the people who find it useful.'' --- Larry Wall
- Inaccurate paragraph in (info "(elisp)Terminal-Specific"),
Daniel Brockman <=