Re: emacsclient on WXP does not work (as it used to)

[Andreas Schwab]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 15:13, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> This was for bug#1267.
>>
>> The goal was to pass the tty to the Emacs server even if we're supposed
>> to use the current frame, because in daemon mode, if the "current frame"
>> is the fake daemon frame, we wan to be able to fall back on using that
>> tty.
>
> Yes, but that should be conditional on Windows, where tty is (I think) not 
> used.

On Unix the emacsclient process also might not have a tty, which now
causes it to fail silently.  This is especially bad if you want to run
"emacsclient --eval" from the desktop.

Andreas.

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