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bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows |
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Sun, 5 Oct 2014 12:23:34 -0700 (PDT) |
In (elisp) `Basic Parameters' I see this description of frame parameter
`display':
The display on which to open this frame. It should be a string of
the form `"HOST:DPY.SCREEN"', just like the `DISPLAY' environment
variable.
But if I evaluate `(frame-parameters)' on MS Windows I see this value
for parameter `display': "w32".
"w32" does not seem to fit the form `"HOST:DPY.SCREEN"'. What gives?
And why is that string surrounded by `...'? And why aren't the
components of that "form" described: What are acceptable values for
HOST, DPY, and SCREEN?
(I assume that the `:' and `.' are to be taken literally here, and that
HOST, DPY, and SCREEN are placeholders, although there is zero
explanation of this.)
Also, I searched the manual case-sensitively for DISPLAY, and found no
description/specification/explanation of "the `DISPLAY' environment variable.
So referring users to that env var to find a specification
of the form `"HOST:DPY.SCREEN"' is unhelpful and misleading.
Please clear up this doc - make it properly specify what form the value
of parameter `display' takes.
In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2014-09-15 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 117884 dancol@dancol.org-20140915050944-sqsajysnwef51f9m
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/05
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/05
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Drew Adams, 2014/10/05
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/06
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Drew Adams, 2014/10/06
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/06
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Drew Adams, 2014/10/06
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/06
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Drew Adams, 2014/10/06
- bug#18637: 24.4.50; doc of frame parameter DISPLAY vs actual value on MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/07