From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; DISPLAY env var bug on w32? Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:13:14 +0000 Message-ID: <478B7C0A.6040601@gnu.org> References: <47827356.70005@gmail.com> <200801072103.m07L3bB7017074@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <4782C394.10509@gmail.com> <4788E3DA.3000201@gmail.com> <85fxx25365.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <478902B8.30908@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200323637 25822 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2008 15:13:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii , dann@ics.uci.edu, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 14 16:14:17 2008 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 1JER0y-0002Th-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:14:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JER0a-0007oI-2C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JER0U-0007lp-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JER0S-0007k7-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JER0S-0007jy-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JER0S-0002t1-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JER0R-0004D4-Rb for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JER0O-0002s6-OR for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JER0K-0002qK-LM; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:13:36 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 11578445/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAEMLi0dTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIqFw Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 14 Jan 2008 15:13:35 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:86894 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20643 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>>>> Right now, using -d DISPLAY on Windows causes nothing but trouble. >>>>>> >>>>> -t / --tty is not specially useful either: >>>>> >>>>> C:\emacs> emacsclient -t >>>>> emacsclient: could not get terminal name >>>>> >>>> Feel free to ifdef away that one as well. >>>> >>> Just like the -d option, I think it can stay. >>> > > >> For what purpose? I think it's wrong to advertise (by --help) options >> that don't work or, worse, cause trouble. >> > > >>> These are options that simply fail to work. >>> > > >> Right, so why have them? >> > > On the off chance that the w32 emacsclient manages to talk to a cygwin > emacsserver that does understand -d and -t. > Not just cygwin, emacsclient can be used to contact a remote server too, and a user may find that more convenient than using tramp in some circumstances.