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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.
bug#1267: Emacsclient can't find terminal in daemon mode, Stefan Monnier, 2008/10/29
bug#1267: marked as done (Emacsclient can't find terminal in daemon mode), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2008/10/30