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Subject: Re: [liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu: Re:  -nw inconvenient for non X users]
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Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 00:04:00 EDT
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In article <8708251815.AA25757@dagda.think.com> rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz) writes:
>[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].

Not everybody who uses X uses it for xterm.  In the PAMI lab here at
UW, we have 3 X-type display devices and a bunch of vt220's.  The X
displays are used mostly for displaying digital images, for displaying
graphical descriptions of pattern analyses and for previewing
documents.  Most people do their work on a vt220 and then display
their images on one of the three X displays - there just aren't enough
X displays to go around.  That means, that it is normal to have the
DISPLAY env variable set, even though xterm is not being used.

Emacs should cue on the TERM being xterm, rather than the DISPLAY
variable being set.  If I'm really using xterm, then it's guaranteed
that my TERM variable will be xterm, then check the DISPLAY variable
for which display to use.


Mike Berkley, University of Waterloo

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