From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacsclient bug Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:54:48 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200909345 23100 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2008 09:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Len Trigg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 10:56:03 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 1JGtNq-00047K-13 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:56:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGtNP-00023s-8w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:55:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGtMv-0001vd-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:55:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGtMt-0001uj-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGtMt-0001uX-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGtMt-0002tr-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:55:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C515330841; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:54:49 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: FISH-NET-FISH-NET-FISH-NET-FISH-NET-FISH!! In-Reply-To: (Len Trigg's message of "Mon\, 21 Jan 2008 16\:16\:26 +1300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:87201 Archived-At: Len Trigg 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."