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display-buffer attempt to pop-up frame in batch mode causes "Unknown terminal type" error |
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Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:21:30 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Package: emacs
With the current trunk:
./src/emacs -Q -batch README INSTALL Makefile
Loading vc-bzr...
Unknown terminal type
(exits with status /= 0)
OK, this is not a very sensible example, but it illustrates the point.
It's caused by display-buffer trying to pop-up a frame in batch-mode and
is very recent.
Emacs 23 does not have this problem by default, but the following shows
the same issue:
emacs-23.3 -Q -batch --eval '(setq pop-up-frames t)' README INSTALL Makefile
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Re: bug#8857: display-buffer attempt to pop-up frame in batch mode causes "Unknown terminal type" error |
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Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:49:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin) |
martin rudalics writes:
>> However, this
>> effectively means that there really is no default value for
>> pop-up-frames,
>
> ... well it's 'unset ...
Yes. But I think you understand my problem: 'unset doesn't say whether
you should pop up a new frame by default or not. It's pretty much what
Drew says in #8865, and I tend to agree with him on this issue. I think
this special handling of 'unset is cumbersome, and it should simply be a
boolean variable with a default of nil or t.
Anyway, I don't want to bother you with two threads on the same issue,
and the original problem has been solved, so I'm closing this bug and
will maybe follow-up on #8865, but I think pretty much everything has
been said regarding this issue.
-David
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