Re: emacsclient bug

[Sascha Wilde]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

>> emacsclient -d $DISPLAY -c
>> works, but this is very annoying, because there are many situations
>> where emacsclient is handy but determining the current display is not so
>> easy.
[...]
> How did you do it with Emacs-22?
>
> The -c argument is not very clearly specified: it just says "use a new
> frame", so if the current Emacs frame is on a tty, creating a new frame
> on that same tty seems like a correct choice.
>
> If you don't want tty frames, then maybe you shouldn't start your Emacs
> server on a tty?

I didn't.  The Emacs server is running under X11, with only X11 frames
used, nevertheless `emacsclient -c' always tries to create an tty frame
(and fails if it is not called from an interactive tty).

sascha
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Sascha Wilde
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