Re: Start emacs without opening a window (X11)

[Dan Nicolaescu]

address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

  > Sebastian Kaps <address@hidden> writes:
  > 
  > > Is there a possibility to start Emacs without opening a window?
  > > I want to start the Emacs server from my .emacs and then use only
  > > emacsclient to pop up a new window.
  > > XEmacs knows an option "-unmapped" which does exactly what I want, but I
  > > haven't found anything similar in Emacs.
  > 
  > It seems that there's no other way than to launch emacs -nw in a
  > screen(1) and forget about it.  Since Emacs has become a true server, it
  > may be a good idea to had a `-daemon' option or something like that.
  > 
  > Any opinion?

It would be great to be able to do this. Karoly said on this list that
the way to implement this is to implement a special kind of display
that does not output anything.

We just need someone that is interested to work on this...