From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8857: display-buffer attempt to pop-up frame in batch mode causes "Unknown terminal type" error Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:25:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4DF726E0.6020205@gmx.at> <4DF79707.7000707@gmx.at> <4DF7A0D0.2030707@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308078663 6110 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2011 19:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8857@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 21:10:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWZ0p-0000nC-0m for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:10:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWZ0n-00023E-PC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWYJQ-0007r1-Fo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWYJO-0007c8-QR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWYJO-0007bp-3F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWYJN-0002Eg-OE; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8857 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8857-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8857.13080759608586 (code B ref 8857); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8857) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jun 2011 18:26:00 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWYJM-0002ER-6T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QWYJK-0002EF-8K for 8857@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39231) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWYJE-0004rh-Pk; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:25:52 -0400 X-Spook: investigation CDMA illuminati world domination top secret X-Ran: ;?h'hOiKU\CeX$N(z]mE9.+k,Dn%RkRi:3,_MGG9\#fs0:S0Luz{C!X?u`Iv6<6Wn;$3\2 X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <4DF7A0D0.2030707@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:56:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:26:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:47149 Archived-At: martin rudalics wrote: >> I guess because pop-up-frames defaults to nil in Emacs 23. > > Emacs 23 could pop up new frame provided the selected frame isn't > "usable". I confess I did not look into precisely what Emacs 23 does, I just saw that pop-up-frames defaults to nil there. (See below.) >> But in the trunk, a default Emacs may now pop-up a frame if it thinks it >> necessary. > > I only tried to mimic Emacs 23 here. So if the original frame cannot be > used it does try to pop up a new one. Doesn't Emacs make an invisible > frame in batch mode? > > Maybe the problem happens because I now load window.el _before_ > files.el. So in Emacs 23 files.el maybe tried to display a buffer but > failed silently. I don't think that can be it. Here's what the addition of a simple: (message "%s:%s" buffer-or-name method) to display-buffer in the trunk shows: ./src/emacs -Q -batch README INSTALL BUGS INSTALL:reuse-window INSTALL:pop-up-window BUGS:reuse-window BUGS:pop-up-window BUGS:pop-up-frame Unknown terminal type Adding similar stuff to emacs-23, I see that display-buffer's cond tries the special-display-function branch (no match), the pop-up-windows branch (no window-to-use), and ends up in the last branch, where it finds a window-to-use every time. So it never tries to pop-up a frame.