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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Len Trigg <lenbok@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacsclient bug
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:54:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jelk6jqz9z.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hby7ajyik5.wl%len@netvalue.net.nz> (Len Trigg's message of "Mon\, 21 Jan 2008 16\:16\:26 +1300")

Len Trigg <lenbok@gmail.com> writes:

> I had always thought of --display and $DISPLAY as fulfilling the same
> function, setting the name of your X server, rather than an
> instruction to perform an action (open a window when you otherwise
> wouldn't).

It also establishes a default.  When you don't pass -nw then emacs uses
the presence of $DISPLAY/-display to decide whether to use a tty or X11
frame.

Andreas.

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"And now for something completely different."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17  0:07 emacsclient bug Len Trigg
2008-01-17 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-17 17:48   ` Len Trigg
2008-01-17 17:56   ` Len Trigg
2008-01-17 18:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-17 19:00       ` Len Trigg
2008-01-20 20:41         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-20 21:56           ` Len Trigg
2008-01-21  1:45             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-21  3:16               ` Len Trigg
2008-01-21  9:54                 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-01-21 15:52                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-22 11:30                   ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-26 21:58                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-27  2:06                       ` Dan Nicolaescu
     [not found]                       ` <ur9odb89g39.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id>
2008-01-27 15:41                         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-28  7:57                           ` KOBAYASHI Yasuhiro
2008-01-31 17:15                           ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-03  0:10                             ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-04 11:46                               ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-04 14:56                                 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-04 15:04                                   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-02-04 17:33                                     ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-06 17:29                             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-06 17:40                               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-06 19:31                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-07  0:44                                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-07  0:50                                   ` Leo
2008-02-07  1:00                                   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-07  9:03                                   ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-08  4:16                                     ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-07  9:05                                 ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-08 15:27                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-09 14:50                                   ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-07  8:56                               ` Sascha Wilde
2008-02-04  4:57                           ` Leo
2008-01-27 16:03                       ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-20 21:56           ` Len Trigg

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