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From: rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz)
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Subject: [liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu: Re:  -nw inconvenient for non X users]
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 14:15:48 EDT
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[Context of discussion:  Dan was confused because he thought emacs
always tried to come up under X when it was compiled with X.  Turned
out that he set his DISPLAY variable in his .login or the like].

Right now emacs is the only program that I know of that does one thing
under X and something else without X.  This is a documentation problem
-- not everyone knows that DISPLAY is the correct key.

Robert^Z

Date: Tue, 25 Aug 87 12:36:03 CDT
From: liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu (Daniel LaLiberte)
To: rlk@Think.COM
Subject: Re:  -nw inconvenient for non X users

You're right about the conditional on TERM.  I'll set DISPLAY in my
X startup script.  Someone else suggested an alias that sets DISPLAY
before starting up X.  It was simply easier to always set DISPLAY,
and nothing else ever cared.  emacs.1 should document this at least.

Thanks for you comments.

dan