From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8857: display-buffer attempt to pop-up frame in batch mode causes "Unknown terminal type" error Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:19:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4DF726E0.6020205@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308068437 5658 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2011 16:20:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8857@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 18:20:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWLw-0007Mb-7O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:20:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWLv-0002iz-7w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:20:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWLW-0002ey-6G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWLU-0006E5-CT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWLU-0006Dv-6W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWLT-0007aT-6H; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:20:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8857 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8857-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8857.130806835529103 (code B ref 8857); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8857) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jun 2011 16:19:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWKh-0007ZL-0S for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWKe-0007Z8-JK for 8857@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:19:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45870) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWWKY-0002PB-Jw; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:19:06 -0400 X-Spook: 9705 Samford Road target SDI rs9512c JFK White Water ICE X-Ran: "=bTkE_m)fk>ciW]PDVnG"$nf=Wa%c=6=!R6$"'5F@.9Nn?Y^PJ+|V{q=A5^WNRSbBi[Xk X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <4DF726E0.6020205@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:16:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:20:03 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:47129 Archived-At: martin rudalics wrote: >> OK, this is not a very sensible example, but it illustrates the point. >> It's caused by display-buffer trying to pop-up a frame in batch-mode and >> is very recent. > > Can you tell me where and why `display-buffer' is called? I don't know. From `find-file' I guess. I noticed because of this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-buildstatus/2011-06/msg00004.html (which was due to custom-make-dependencies leaving files on the command-line so they were processed as normal file arguments) >> PS I forgot to say that I think display-buffer should not try to pop-up >> frames (or do anything at all?) in batch-mode. Or if it must give an >> error it should try to give a more helpful one than "Unknown terminal >> type". > > In particular not with emacs -Q. But I have no experience debugging > emacs with the batch option. So before delving into this maybe you > could give me more information? Maybe display-buffer should just be a no-op in batch-mode, since it's impossible (?) to display anything then (except via the echo area). (defun display-buffer () "" (unless noninteractive ...))