martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:

> I'm not very convinced.  First, the present bug should not motivate this
> change.  ‘select-frame-by-name’ is a pretty obscure function.  It fails
> in the OP's case because the display info for the new frame has not been
> yet set up.  In the interactive call, suggesting a default frame on the
> current terminal makes sense; so consulting that info is useful.  But
> the info is useless in a non-interactive call: Nothing should prevent
> that function from selecting a frame with a given name on any display.

Ah, so we could just do something like this? (untested)