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bug#1267: Emacsclient can't find terminal in daemon mode


From: Dan Nicolaescu
Subject: bug#1267: Emacsclient can't find terminal in daemon mode
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:14:50 -0700 (PDT)

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
  > 
  > >   > 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?

We do.  If there's already an open frame everything works just fine.
The problem case is when there's no frame.






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