Re: Starting emacs without initial frame

[Rainer Trusch <rainer.trusch@students.uni-mainz.de>]

Hi David,

On 18 Mär 2005, David Kastrup wrote:
> Rainer Trusch <rainer.trusch@students.uni-mainz.de> writes:
>
>> Is there a way to start emacs without an initial frame like the
>> --unmapped option in xemacs?
>
> Given that Emacs does not have multiple-tty capability right now,
> there would be little sense in putting such an option in now: Emacs
> would not be able to guess which tty was going to ask for it first.
> So an unmapped Emacs does not make sense at the current point of
> time.
>
> Merging the multi-tty branch is slated for after the release of
> Emacs 22.1.  I think that this would then be reason to incorporate
> some functionality of gnuclient, and provide such an option.

Thanks for the info. I have to figure out how to deal with it.


Rainer