bug#41788: 28.0.50; emacsclient -t doesn't work with vipe from moreutils

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jun 06 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> That associates the process with /dev/tty, not the real terminal.  But
>> the running Emacs process usually does not have a controlling terminal,
>> thus it cannot open /dev/tty.  It needs to know the real terminal to be
>> able to open a tty frame on it.
>
> This works fine, though:
>
>  echo a | EDITOR="emacs -nw" vipe
>
> It's only when using emacsclient that we get an error...

Of course, emacs -nw runs on the same terminal.

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