From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Where is the code for the Emacs server in the core? Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:52:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83inc51z25.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515862328 6998 195.159.176.226 (13 Jan 2018 16:52:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: George Plymale II Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 13 17:52:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaP2C-00019c-Uw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:51:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49630 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaP4C-0000zI-Dq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43917) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaP32-0000vi-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:52:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaP2y-0004Fs-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:52:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47684) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaP2y-0004Fo-7e; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1616 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eaP2w-0003Ws-HA; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:52:44 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from George Plymale II on Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:51:55 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221926 Archived-At: > From: George Plymale II > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:51:55 -0500 > > > The Mac port doesn't support multi-tty with GUI. The developer has no > > idea how to detach Emacs as a GUI application from Window Server or > > Dock without separating a GUI process (not thread) from the main Emacs > > (Lisp evaluator) process. TTY-only multi-tty is supposed to work. > > That is Yamamoto Mitsuharu's statement on why multi-tty is not supported > on the Emacs Mac Port. Does plain GNU Emacs have this problem? If so, > how does it get around or solve it? I have to assume that plain GNU > Emacs is also attached to the Window Server or Dock as well so I'm > wondering if there's something I'm missing. I know nothing about how macOS works wrt GUI applications, so I don't understand what is meant by "attached to the Window Server or Dock", nor how to compare that with what Emacs does on X, sorry. Perhaps someone else could chime in.