Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS)

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
  > 
  > > Can you please send a proper bug report starting from emacs -Q that
  > > shows what exactly are you doing? Please include what system are you
  > > using, what toolkit are you using, etc etc.
  > 
  > Looks like the effects on Athena and Gtk+ are similar.  However, at
  > least from emacs -Q (and using M-x server-start) I can get a tty
  > session to start with emacsclient.  I can't with my full session, so
  > I'll need to experiment around with the details.
  >
  > Either way, even when using emacs -Q, a setenv of PATH to a different
  > value in the Emacs started from the GNOME taskbar will be visible in a
  > subsequently initiated emacsclient session, whether on the tty or
  > under X.

Can you please explain what exactly are you trying to accomplish and
how are you trying to accomplish it?  

The main reason the environment variables are sent from emacsclient to
the server is to initialize the terminal correctly: you can have a
terminal frame in an xterm and at the same time one in a vt100
terminal and they both work as expected. Károly might correct me if I
am wrong, but I don't think PATH has been considered too much...