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From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: How do I know if I am in Emacstool
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Date: 11 Mar 89 23:35:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)

In article <37031@bbn.COM>, mesard@bbn (Wayne Mesard) writes:
>(Why
>doesn't emacstool set an env variable or somfin?!)

Indeed.

I've been trying to write a set of functions which work both in Emacstool
and in X (and with luck, on any other windowing port of GNU Emacs), but
that symbol "window-system" doesn't get set on Emacstool (which it should).
Having Emacstool set an environment variable would be one way to do it;
passing the window system type directly to Emacs would probably work better,
to avoid having the environment variable inherited by any subprocesses.

Bill