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Re: Missing frame parameters on tty's
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Missing frame parameters on tty's |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:02:14 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hello, Eli.
On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:34:35PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:18:15 +0000
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
[ .... ]
> > Anyhow, I've been reading the "Window Frame Parameters" chapter in the
> > Elisp manual, in particular "Position Parameters". The description of
> > `left' and `top' immediately follow a statement that measurements on a
> > TTY are in terms of characters or lines. This cannot help but give the
> > impression `left' and `top' _are_ available on TTYs. Perhaps if we
> > aren't going to give TTYs these parameters, we should amend that manual
> > page to say explicitly that TTYs don't have them.
> Patches to that effect are welcome.
How about this one, then?
diff --git a/doc/lispref/frames.texi b/doc/lispref/frames.texi
index 5d873ac..18932cb 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/frames.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/frames.texi
@@ -1188,8 +1188,8 @@ Position Parameters
@cindex window position on display
@cindex frame position
- Position parameters' values are normally measured in pixels, but on
-text terminals they count characters or lines instead.
+ Position parameters' values are measured in pixels. None of them
+exist on text terminal frames.
@table @code
@vindex left, a frame parameter
> Thanks.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Missing frame parameters on tty's,
Alan Mackenzie <=