Re: emacsclient bug

[Andreas Schwab]

Len Trigg <address@hidden> writes:

> I had always thought of --display and $DISPLAY as fulfilling the same
> function, setting the name of your X server, rather than an
> instruction to perform an action (open a window when you otherwise
> wouldn't).

It also establishes a default.  When you don't pass -nw then emacs uses
the presence of $DISPLAY/-display to decide whether to use a tty or X11
frame.

Andreas.

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