emacs -nw keypad

[Ken Brown]

On 5/25/2009 6:13 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> I would have said that this could be same problem as in [1], an X server 
> bug, but then I would expect the problem to be seen both in "emacs -nw 
> in an xterm under X" and "emaacs under X"...

I'm not yet convinced that there's a bug.  The tpu-*.el files use the 
emacs variable 'window-system' to decide whether X windows is running. 
If I start emacs under X, that variable has the value x.  If I run emacs 
-nw in an xterm, the variable has the value nil.  If I run emacs under 
rxvt (without specifying -nw), I get the message

	Display :0 unavailable, simulating -nw

and again window-system has the value nil.  This strikes me as the 
correct behavior, consistent with the documentation of '-nw'.

I guess what's puzzling is why Tim doesn't have a problem with earlier 
versions of emacs.  Has something changed in how emacs interprets -nw? 
Or has tpu-edt changed?  Maybe Eli can clarify this.

Ken

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