Re: 23.0.50; Unable to launch emacsclient from shell buffers:

[T. V. Raman]

Yes, You understand the situation correctly:

0)  I'm running Emacs on a Linux Virtual Console
1)  I'm running M-x shell 
2) emacsclient when invoked from the shell should open a buffer
on the running emacs

Why this is needed:

Of course you'd never invoke emacsclient by hand like this --
you'd do find-file.

However other programs e.g. cvs or svn when committing a file
call emacsclient to edit the commit log.

At present emacsclient bombs when this happens, the older
behavior of emacsclient was to correctly hand off the buffer to
be opened by emacs.

Note that if you force the issue by doing (export TERM=vt100;
emacsclient foo)
then emacs itself locks up.
    Dan> "T. V. Raman" <address@hidden> writes:
    >> This is while running outside X at the linux console.
    Dan> 
    Dan> I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do.
    Dan> 
    Dan> Please confirm that this is what you are trying to do:
    Dan> run emacs on a linux console run M-x shell in emacs run
    Dan> emacsclient from the shell buffer.
    Dan> 
    Dan> If this is the situation, what do you expect emacsclient
    Dan> to do in this case?
    Dan> 
    >> 
  > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
  >     Dan> raman <address@hidden> writes:
  >     >> One can no longer launch emacsclient from shell buffers,
  >     >> if you do you get the folllowing error:
  >     >> 
  >     >> emacsclient foo *ERROR*: Terminal type "dumb" is not
  >     >> powerful enough to run Emacs 22:26:39 labrador ~ $
  >     Dan> 
  >     Dan> This sounds like DISPLAY is not set. What is the output
  >     Dan> of:
  >     Dan> 
  >     Dan> echo $DISPLAY
  >     Dan> 
  >     Dan> 
  >     Dan> I cannot reproduce your problem on my machine.
  > 
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