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

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Apr 16 2005, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> In 99% of the cases, people want their Emacs to behave the same on all their
> machines, so the config should be the same, no matter whether it's
> GNU/Linux, w32, uses window-system, ...
>
> What can happen, tho, is that depending on the machine some things may or
> may not be available.  In that case just prepend each such customization
> with a little test that ensures that feature can be used.
> This test will generally not look at system-type or window-system, but will
> instead check (fboundp <somefunctionIwanttouse), or (file-directory-p
> "somedirectoryIwanttouse"), or even place a whole subexpression inside
> a (ignore-errors ...my config...).

It would be nice to have something like this text in (info
"(emacs)Init Examples") along with some examples.

Bye, Reiner.
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