From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacsclient's option decoding code Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:54:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87y6zob64l.fsf@justinbogner.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226609703 32603 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2008 20:55:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:55:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: mail@justinbogner.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 13 21:56:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0jEQ-0003mp-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:56:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54134 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0jDI-0001BF-IT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:54:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0jDE-0001B3-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L0jDC-0001AQ-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36060 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0jDC-0001AM-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:54:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:64194) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0jDB-0005qx-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:54:45 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KAA00H00I0Z9W00@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:56:36 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.205.49]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KAA00ATMI6B49E0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:56:36 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87y6zob64l.fsf@justinbogner.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105671 Archived-At: > From: mail@justinbogner.com > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:29:46 -0700 > > if :0.0 is miles away, the user almost certainly *doesn't* want to pop > up random windows on it. On the other hand, if it's right next to him, > he can quite easily set DISPLAY and try again. If the environment of > emacsclient doesn't include a DISPLAY, then emacsclient should not > arbitrarily use another DISPLAY. It's not just another DISPLAY, it's the default DISPLAY. The general idea is, if you cannot do something fancy, do it less fancy.