On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
configuration
--On Wed, May 6, 1998 1:45 am +0200 Remco Blaakmeer
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Carlos Barros wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining
whether or
not
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
What about trying to connext to X server, and if an error, do it in
terminal mode.
Which would result in opening X connections when working on the
console. No, that's not
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
configuration situations that break the method.
How about just checking for the existance of the DISPLAY variable?
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
[snip]
I guess I should learn to read faster since it has already been mentioned
many times.
Anand
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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
configuration situations that break the method.
How
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
configuration situations that break the
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:48:28PM +0300, Carlos Barros wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether
or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 08:24:50PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
Test $DISPLAY, it's the Right Way to test for X.
But not the right way to test for xterm.
If $DISPLAY is set you're either in an xterm, rxvt, or kvt. As far as ae
would care, these are one and the same.
pgpBM27t6J25C.pgp
Test $DISPLAY, it's the Right Way to test for X.
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 08:24:50PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
But not the right way to test for xterm.
Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If $DISPLAY is set you're either in an xterm, rxvt, or kvt. As far as ae
would care, these
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:42:39PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
configuration situations that break the method.
When you start an xterm, TERM is set to
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Dale Scheetz wrote:...
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
configuration situations that break the method.
When you start an xterm, TERM is set
Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Test $DISPLAY, it's the Right Way to test for X.
But not the right way to test for xterm.
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Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be wrong with having the non-x ae tell you in the help
screen what you need to run to get xterm support? The need for this
xterm support comes from folks who want to administer a base system
remotely from a system using an xterm. This is a
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:42:39PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote:
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
configuration situations that break the
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason I feel compelled to ask is that I will be creating two new
names: xvi and xae.
xvi, intuitively, seems to refer to an x aware version of vi (elvis or
vim). How about xaevi?
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On Sat, 2 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason I feel compelled to ask is that I will be creating two new
names: xvi and xae.
xvi, intuitively, seems to refer to an x aware version of vi (elvis or
vim). How about xaevi?
A bit bulky ;-)
There
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ln -s '/bin/ae -f /etc/aex.rc' xae
and, while it seemed to build the link I desired (it looks good with ls
-l) when I try to execute xae, bash tells me the file is not found.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
That's only going to work if you have
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ln -s '/bin/ae -f /etc/aex.rc' xae
and, while it seemed to build the link I desired (it looks good with ls
-l) when I try to execute xae, bash tells me the file is not found.
Any idea what I am doing
Dale Scheetz wrote:...
There doesn't seem to be a reliable method for determining whether or
not you are in an xterm. Any method so far suggested has natural
configuration situations that break the method.
When you start an xterm, TERM is set to xterm; why not test for that?
The trouble
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