* [BUG?] emacs-23.1 OSX emacsclient always opens a new frame
@ 2009-08-17 10:54 Mark Evenson
2009-08-18 8:10 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Mark Evenson @ 2009-08-17 10:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
[Using a self-compiled emacs-23.1 under i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
configured with the '--with-ns' option.]
In migrating to emacs-23, all does not seem well with the emacsclient
command. My Emacs workflow is to not use frames at all. Now, when I
invoke 'emacsclient' on a file (without any additional flags) under OSX,
it always opens a new frame. Additionally, upon launch, the new frame
presents a message of the form "Buffer 'xxx.txt' still has clients, kill
it? (yes or no)", with the code execution seeming to be at the point
after one issues the 'server-edit' ("C-x #") command. It seems like
the 'emacsclient' code doesn't really understand how to open the buffer
in the current frame, failing to wait for the server-edit command, and
then somehow recovering on the broken socket, but this is just a hunch.
Five minutes of glancing through 'emacsclient.c' wasn't particularly
helpful. But maybe my understanding of how Emacs 23 handles Frames
needs some education.
--
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there
is nothing to compare to it now."
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* Re: [BUG?] emacs-23.1 OSX emacsclient always opens a new frame
2009-08-17 10:54 [BUG?] emacs-23.1 OSX emacsclient always opens a new frame Mark Evenson
@ 2009-08-18 8:10 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4841.1250583053.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-20 8:28 ` [SOLVED] " Mark Evenson
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2009-08-18 8:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark Evenson; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Am 17.08.2009 um 12:54 schrieb Mark Evenson:
> Five minutes of glancing through 'emacsclient.c' wasn't
> particularly helpful.
Indeed! The NS code addition also provide support for DnD
(Drag&Drop), in which a new frame is created. Emacsclient accepts the
-c option by which the server is advised to create a new frame, and -
nw to open the window here in this terminal emulation.
Are you making your tests without any customisation? (/Applications/
Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/Emacs -Q &) Could be this customisation
causes the behaviour you see... (My self-compiled Emacs.app, Tiger
PPC, does *not* create a new frame when I invoke emacsclient, but I
prefer to work with at least one frame. All the time.)
--
Greetings
Pete
Theory and practice are the same, in theory, but, in practice, they
are different.
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* Re: [BUG?] emacs-23.1 OSX emacsclient always opens a new frame
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@ 2009-08-18 8:47 ` Mark Evenson
2009-08-19 5:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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From: Mark Evenson @ 2009-08-18 8:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 8/18/09 10:10 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
[…]
> Are you making your tests without any customisation?
> (/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/Emacs -Q &) Could be this
> customisation causes the behaviour you see... (My self-compiled
> Emacs.app, Tiger PPC, does *not* create a new frame when I invoke
> emacsclient, but I prefer to work with at least one frame. All the time.)
Testing this without customization yields the same result of an
additional frame popping up, immediately prompting me whether I wish to
kill the buffer that still has clients, so this doesn't seem to be the
issue.
Maybe a Tiger v Leopard difference? Could someone running Leopard with
emacs-23.1 please comment on the behavior of emacsclient under their setup?
--
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there
is nothing to compare to it now."
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* Re: [BUG?] emacs-23.1 OSX emacsclient always opens a new frame
2009-08-18 8:47 ` Mark Evenson
@ 2009-08-19 5:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.4860.1250658888.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2009-08-19 5:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Mark Evenson wrote:
> On 8/18/09 10:10 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> […]
>
>> Are you making your tests without any customisation?
>> (/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/Emacs -Q &) Could be this
>> customisation causes the behaviour you see... (My self-compiled
>> Emacs.app, Tiger PPC, does *not* create a new frame when I invoke
>> emacsclient, but I prefer to work with at least one frame. All the
>> time.)
>
> Testing this without customization yields the same result of an
> additional frame popping up, immediately prompting me whether I wish
> to kill the buffer that still has clients, so this doesn't seem to
> be the issue.
>
> Maybe a Tiger v Leopard difference? Could someone running Leopard
> with emacs-23.1 please comment on the behavior of emacsclient under
> their setup?
Whoops, -n is --no-wait, nothing to do with frames, not sure what I
was thinking. I'm using emacs 23 CVS head on Leopard, and it doesn't
create a frame by default (I see there's a -c --create-frame option
that *will* force it to make a new frame). It works just the way you'd
expect it to...
Eric
>
> --
> "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there
> is nothing to compare to it now."
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* Re: [BUG?] emacs-23.1 OSX emacsclient always opens a new frame
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@ 2009-08-19 7:19 ` Mark Evenson
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From: Mark Evenson @ 2009-08-19 7:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 8/19/09 7:14 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
[…]
> Whoops, -n is --no-wait, nothing to do with frames, not sure what I was
> thinking. I'm using emacs 23 CVS head on Leopard, and it doesn't create
> a frame by default (I see there's a -c --create-frame option that *will*
> force it to make a new frame). It works just the way you'd expect it to...
Then I will bear down harder on attaching a gdb instance to my
'emacsclient' to try to determine whats special about my situation.
Thanks for the report,
Mark
--
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there
is nothing to compare to it now."
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* [SOLVED] emacs-23.1 OSX emacsclient always opens a new frame
2009-08-17 10:54 [BUG?] emacs-23.1 OSX emacsclient always opens a new frame Mark Evenson
2009-08-18 8:10 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4841.1250583053.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
@ 2009-08-20 8:28 ` Mark Evenson
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From: Mark Evenson @ 2009-08-20 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 8/17/09 12:54 PM, Mark Evenson wrote:
> [Using a self-compiled emacs-23.1 under i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
> configured with the '--with-ns' option.]
>
> In migrating to emacs-23, all does not seem well with the emacsclient
> command. My Emacs workflow is to not use frames at all. Now, when I
> invoke 'emacsclient' on a file (without any additional flags) under OSX,
> it always opens a new frame
Rebuilding with the released version of [the MacPorts port][1] version
has made my problem go away (I was trying a pre-release version of the
MacPorts build). The difference appears to be the addition of the
"--without-x" to the configure invocation, although I didn't verify this.
Thanks for the help.
[1]:
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/aqua/emacs-app/Portfile
--
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there
is nothing to compare to it now."
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