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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: dired/gnus on a tty
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > Now, regardless of Axel's fix, I'd like to ask if this is the desired
 > behaviour.  `(featurep 'menubar)' evals to `t' because this copy of
 > XEmacs is dumped with the menubar support.  But this is highly
 > unintuitive for package authors who would like to use `featurep' to
 > distinguish whether a feature is avaiable/ready-to-use or not.

Yes, this is desirable behavior.  Think about running XEmcas with
frames open on two devices, one tty, the other X based.  featurep
checks for global availability, the console- and device- functions
tell whether a thing can be displayed locally.  I've done this
with VM and it works.

