Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS)

[David Kastrup]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   > So one of the differences appears to be that the tty session has
>   > TERMCAP information.
>
> Most likely irrelevant, you are probably using terminfo if you are on
> a GNU/Linux system. 
>
>   > Add to this that I don't seem to have emacsclient passing the PATH
>   > variable to the sessions it initiates, and it seems like the missing
>   > individual environment from the text tty is causing my problems to
>   > have emacsclient -t work.
>   > 
>   > It is curious that emacsclient will only sometimes complain but always
>   > exit immediately.
>   > 
>   > Any ideas how to debug?
>
> Try deleting everything in your .emacs that deals with frames, changes
> frame parameters, etc. I'd guess that the make-frame-on-tty call in
> server.el fails for some reason. 

emacs -Q, when started from the window manager via Alt-F2, exhibits
the same behavior.  So .emacs has nothing to do with it.

-- 
David Kastrup