Mercurial > emacs
changeset 100714:cf5404249096
(Terminal Type): New node.
(Editing Types): Add it to the menu.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:44:38 +0000 |
| parents | f02f8ccc75b7 |
| children | b31133dbfd6d |
| files | doc/lispref/objects.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/lispref/objects.texi Sat Dec 27 15:26:23 2008 +0000 +++ b/doc/lispref/objects.texi Sat Dec 27 15:44:38 2008 +0000 @@ -1347,7 +1347,8 @@ * Buffer Type:: The basic object of editing. * Marker Type:: A position in a buffer. * Window Type:: Buffers are displayed in windows. -* Frame Type:: Windows subdivide frames. +* Frame Type:: Windows subdivide frames. +* Terminal Type:: A terminal device displays frames. * Window Configuration Type:: Recording the way a frame is subdivided. * Frame Configuration Type:: Recording the status of all frames. * Process Type:: A subprocess of Emacs running on the underlying OS. @@ -1492,6 +1493,25 @@ @xref{Frames}, for a description of the functions that work on frames. +@node Terminal Type +@subsection Terminal Type +@cindex terminal type + + A @dfn{terminal} is a device capable of displaying one or more +Emacs frames (@pxref{Frame Type}). + + Terminals have no read syntax. They print in hash notation giving +the terminal's ordinal number and its TTY device file name. + +@example +@group +(get-device-terminal nil) + @result{} #<terminal 1 on /dev/tty> +@end group +@end example + +@c FIXME: add an xref to where terminal-related primitives are described. + @node Window Configuration Type @subsection Window Configuration Type @cindex window layout in a frame