From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multi-tty breakage on MS-Windows Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:21:43 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200709081532.l88FWcUu014489@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <85k5qzobbk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189396042 27445 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2007 03:47:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 10 13:47:08 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 1IUhKs-00023c-Mr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:21:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUZqW-0004O8-5u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUZqS-0004Mx-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUZqQ-0004M1-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:21:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUZqQ-0004Ly-KW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:21:50 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUZqM-0001sX-4z; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-196-29.inter.net.il [83.130.196.29]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id HTM91356 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:18:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <85k5qzobbk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:03:59 +0200) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:78409 Archived-At: > Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , Eli Zaretskii , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:03:59 +0200 > > Stefan Monnier writes: > > >> I think so, the communication between the emacsclient and emacs is > >> more complex now, more stuff is sent over the wire. > > > > AFAICT we could very well make it backward compatible. > > The first thing to do for that is to change the "-c" argument of emacsclient > > so that by default it "behaves as before". Then we can make sure that when > > it "behaves as before" it sends the same data to the server. > > Where is the point of having an emacsclient not matching the emacs > version one is using? I explained when this is incompatibility is an annoyance: when you use several different versions of Emacs at once. In that case, it might well happen that the Emacs that is running the server is incompatible with emacsclient that's invoked by some application that calls $EDITOR.