From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1267: Emacsclient can't find terminal in daemon mode Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200810300007.m9U07XYV017977@mothra.ics.uci.edu> References: <87r660gw33.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <200810292306.m9TN6fE0017904@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <87zlknvuna.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Dan Nicolaescu , 1267@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225326628 1920 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2008 00:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1267@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 01:31:30 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KvLRb-0003Pw-MV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by mothra.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id m9U07XYV017977; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:07:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zlknvuna.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:39:05 -0400") Original-Lines: 32 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: m9U07YDn012912 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:30:10 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:22017 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > In you particular emacsly Emacs uses the "initial frame" to show the > > file, which is probably not ideal. > > This particular case can be solved by trying to see if the > > `(selected-frame)' is FRAME_INITIAL_P (which is not exposed to elisp). > > We can guess that if there's no window-system and tty-type frame > > parameter we are dealing with the initial frame. > > > > Not sure if this is good enough to cover all possible cases... > > The patch you sent won't work on a text-only terminal. Have you tried it? It should throw an error and ask for either -t or -c > I think a better approach is to change emacsclient so that it sends the > tty name/type if it is supposed to "use the current frame" (normally, it > doesn't do this unless the -t option is provided). Then, the Emacs > server should check whether it can actually use the current frame; if Please define "whether it can actually use the current frame" > not, it tries X; if that fails, it falls back on using the tty specified Does "it tries X" mean it tries to create an X frame? That won't be right, the user might just want to use an existing X frame. I do that 100 times a day. > by emacsclient.