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bug#4124: 23.1; mwheel in --daemon mode
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#4124: 23.1; mwheel in --daemon mode |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:22:51 -0700 (PDT) |
John Prevost <prevost1@cert.org> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>
> > In emacs-23 uses of window-system to initialize variables are most of
> > the time bugs because window-system is not a constant anymore. Its
> > value depends of the frame it is used in, and we can have TTY and GUI
> > frames in the same emacs sessions, so...
>
> That was my assumption, yup.
>
> > w32 does not use the daemon mode, nor can it use TTY and w32 frames at
> > the same time, so it should not matter.
>
> Hmm. Is it not possible to start emacs in --daemon mode and use
> emacsclient to open a file in w32? I thought I had tested this and that
> it had worked.
No, it does not, from emacs/src/emacs.c:
#else /* DOS_NT */
fprintf (stderr, "This platform does not support the -daemon flag.\n");
exit (1);
#endif /* DOS_NT */
> In any case, it's clear that this is a problem in mwheel, and I do have
> a short-term workaround.
It would be good if someone would look at mwheel.el and fix it
properly...