From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:50:06 -0700 Message-ID: <200705142250.l4EMo6qa016494@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <200705131822.l4DIMtXt019128@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85abw8o51q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <464835DE.3020007@lorentey.hu> <86y7jrr8rx.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86lkfrr3s6.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86d513r2i1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <861whjr097.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <200705141648.l4EGmmvW007675@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85bqgngvos.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705141819.l4EIJLPr009832@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85ps53fcm0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705142004.l4EK4DHg012188@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85lkfrf91x.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705142102.l4EL2pHK013655@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <858xbrf64t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705142213.l4EMDBlm015577@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85mz07dori.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179183048 32109 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2007 22:50:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Karoly Lorentey , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 00:50:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnjNN-0007IS-D5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 00:50:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnjVA-0000ZY-NI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:58:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnjV6-0000ZS-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HnjV5-0000Yy-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:58:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnjV5-0000Yv-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:58:43 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HnjNG-0001FB-9C; Mon, 14 May 2007 18:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4EMo6qa016494; Mon, 14 May 2007 15:50:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <85mz07dori.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue\, 15 May 2007 00\:27\:45 +0200") Original-Lines: 53 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71083 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > > > > Nobody claimed the code was bug free, but it did do what was > > > > advertised to do. > > > > > > Reality check. It didn't. It only worked when one started the > > > main Emacs from a tty with termcap/terminfo settings identical > > > to those where one later started emacsclient. > > > > Can you please provide a proper bug report of what you are trying to > > do and how? > > Oh for heavens sake, don't you read this list? Please point me to the message (excepting this one) where you have sent a reproduceable description of your issue. I did this: > Start something like > TERM="" TERMCAP="" COLORTERM="" COLUMNS="" ROWS="" emacs -Q > (the point being to remove terminal-related variables) > and then, from a tty, start And then did M-x server-start RET > emacsclient -t > > This does not work. emacsclient -t started fine for me and it is fully functional, colors appear as expected. > > > That was the problem I hit first and reported. And part of the > > > reason is that getenv does not, as opposed to advertised, fetch > > > a terminal- or frame-specific environment variable. > > > > > > So I changed it to do that in order to match its DOC string, and > > > it turns out that the code for _multitty_ (what this branch is > > > supposed to be about in the first place) does not yet fetch the > > > right kind of variables. > > > > Do you feel that it is reasonable to make changes to the CVS that > > you don't create ChangeLogs for, > > There _is_ no ChangeLog file for multi-tty yet, and I _did_ create a > CVS log entry. > > > don't even post something on the list letting people know that > > you've made changes, > > I _did_ post the patch to the list. That is not the same as saying you committed the patch.