Re: patch to make emacs proceed if DISPLAY is unreachable

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-03-07 08:31, "Jan D." <address@hidden> wrote:
>Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:
>> Hi: In the past, I've had to administer various machines with NFS
>> mounted homedirs, and from time to time when su'ing I've been bitten
>> by the fact that altough DISPLAY was set, emacs couldn't read my
>> .Xauthority file (as it was on NHS). I've had a look at the code, and
>> figure oud what's going on, (I think), and put together this patch to
>> make emacs proceed as if -nw had been supplied if DISPLAY is
>> unreachable for some reason.
>
> Hmm, I prefer the old behaviour.  I often set DISPLAY to a remote machine
> but forget to fix .Xauthority.  I don't want -nw to happen then, I just
> want Emacs to tell me it can not connect to that display.

How about making this customizable then?

I haven't had the time to look into the DISPLAY initialization parts.
If they are used before .emacs is loaded it may be a bit trickier than
what I initially thought.  But when users may want a diversion from the
default behavior, then a customizable option is what's called for, IMHO :)

- Giorgos