From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; DISPLAY env var bug on w32? Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:12 -0500 Message-ID: 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=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200323073 23578 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2008 15:04:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:04:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, dann@ics.uci.edu, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 14 16:04:55 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 1JEQrt-0007YL-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:04:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEQrU-0003NX-UR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEQrQ-0003LX-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEQrO-0003J1-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEQrN-0003Iy-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEQrN-00086M-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JEQrN-0003bV-9j for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEQrK-00085S-3T for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEQrG-00083x-BR; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:14 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAHIIi0fO+KVp/2dsb2JhbACoQn0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,282,1196658000"; d="scan'208";a="12638375" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 14 Jan 2008 10:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.165.105]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id UQS03213; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9481C8124; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:04:12 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:07:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:86893 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20642 Archived-At: >> >> > 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. In any case, I think that most of this work should be done on the server.el side anyway. I just don't have the time to code it up. Stefan