Re: Daemon and client: Only open new frame if there isn't one already?

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 13.03.2009 um 22:20 schrieb Johan Bockgård:

> Hugo Heden <hugoheden@ > writes:
>
>
>> The first time I invoke emacsclient it opens in a terminal, not in a
>> window-manager-managed GUI-frame. I have to manually create a
>> GUI-frame using --create-frame.
>
> That seems to be the intended behavior
>
>     "If the Emacs process has no existing frame--which can happen  
> if it
>      was started as a daemon--then Emacs opens a frame on the terminal
>      in which you called `emacsclient', as though you had used the  
> `-t'
>      option."
>
> (info "(emacs) Invoking emacsclient")


This is not really clever: after I successfully compiled GNU Emacs  
from CVS I launch it for testing from the elder Emacs' *shell* buffer  
– this has to fail then!

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