From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; DISPLAY env var bug on w32? Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:07:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <47827356.70005@gmail.com> <200801072103.m07L3bB7017074@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <4782C394.10509@gmail.com> <4788E3DA.3000201@gmail.com> <85fxx25365.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <478902B8.30908@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200283652 2981 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2008 04:07:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:07:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, dann@ics.uci.edu, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 14 05:07:53 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 1JEGc4-0003R0-HW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:07:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEGbg-0004A3-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:07:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEGbc-00049o-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:07:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEGbb-00049c-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:07:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEGbb-00049Z-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:07:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEGbb-00028U-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:07:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JEGba-0004Kz-UF for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:07:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEGbX-00028A-QI for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:07:22 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEGbX-000280-Ew for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:07:19 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-228-91.inter.net.il [84.229.228.91]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id JXB70612 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:06:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:41:31 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:86876 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20635 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: "Juanma Barranquero" , lennart.borgman@gmail.com, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:41:31 -0500 > > >> > Right now, using -d DISPLAY on Windows causes nothing but trouble. > >> > >> -t / --tty is not specially useful either: > >> > >> C:\emacs> emacsclient -t > >> emacsclient: could not get terminal name > > > Feel free to ifdef away that one as well. > > Just like the -d option, I think it can stay. For what purpose? I think it's wrong to advertise (by --help) options that don't work or, worse, cause trouble. > These are options that simply fail to work. Right, so why have them?