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Re: 23.0.50; [emacsclient] *ERROR*: Don't know how to create a frame on
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Michael Mauger |
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Re: 23.0.50; [emacsclient] *ERROR*: Don't know how to create a frame on window system x |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:02:21 -0700 (PDT) |
Luca Capello wrote:
>
>
> I get the output in the subject whenever I tried to use emacsclient
> with something very simple like (the same trying to editing a file):
>
> $ emacsclient -e 'user-full-name'
>
> This is very strange, because emacs is compiled without X support and
> I anyway started it as `emacs -nw`.
>
>
I was running into the same problem on w32. It's due to the multi-tty
merge. The problem is that DISPLAY is set. I have an X server running
under w32, but obviously, my w32 Emacs doesn't support X, so the error was
unexpected.
Try:
$ DISPLAY= emacsclient -e 'user-full-name'
and the error should go away. (Note that there has to be at least a space
between the "DISPLAY=" and "emacsclient ...".)
This is something that ought to be fixed. We need better heuristics about
what type of frame the user wants and can support.
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