Mercurial > emacs
changeset 57766:49c3962f983c
(Display Feature Testing): Explain about "vendor".
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:46:47 +0000 |
| parents | 77c93cbb1721 |
| children | 241be2c6b67a |
| files | lispref/frames.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/frames.texi Thu Oct 28 06:37:48 2004 +0000 +++ b/lispref/frames.texi Thu Oct 28 06:46:47 2004 +0000 @@ -1980,12 +1980,18 @@ @defun x-server-version &optional display This function returns the list of version numbers of the X server running the display. The value is a list of three integers: the major -and minor version numbers, and the vendor-specific release number. +and minor version numbers of the X protocol, and the +distributor-specific release number of the X server software itself. @end defun @defun x-server-vendor &optional display -This function returns the ``vendor'' that provided the X server software -(as a string). +This function returns the ``vendor'' that provided the X server +software (as a string). Really this means whoever distributes the X +server. + +When the developers of X labelled software distributors as +``vendors'', they showed their false assumption that no system could +ever be developed and distributed noncommercially. @end defun @ignore