From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, 1267@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1267: Emacsclient can't find terminal in daemon mode
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:40:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvod12u7q1.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skqe511f.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:23:08 -0400")
>> > 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
>>
>> > 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.
> How about just using the tty?
> Do we lose anything by making emacsclient use the tty (i.e., the same as
> -t) if neither -t nor -c is specified, and the server is a daemon?
Another option is to run frame-initialize (which will open a frame on
either X or tty, IIUC).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-30 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87d4hif53r.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
2008-10-28 23:04 ` bug#1267: Emacsclient can't find terminal in daemon mode Chong Yidong
2008-10-29 23:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-29 23:39 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-30 0:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-30 1:23 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-30 2:14 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-30 3:55 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-30 5:25 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-30 2:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-10-30 1:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-30 2:15 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-30 16:05 ` bug#1267: marked as done (Emacsclient can't find terminal in daemon mode) Emacs bug Tracking System
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