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emacsclient should support the "-nw" flag

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: emacsclient should support the "-nw" flag
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:36:44 -0700 (PDT)

emacsclient should support the "-nw" flag (as an equivalent to "-t") for
consistency with emacs.

The attached patch implements this.

Index: emacsclient.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lib-src/emacsclient.c,v
retrieving revision 1.132
diff -u -3 -p -u -p -r1.132 emacsclient.c
--- emacsclient.c	19 Sep 2008 16:45:12 -0000	1.132
+++ emacsclient.c	13 Oct 2008 01:34:25 -0000
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ struct option longopts[] =
   { "help",	no_argument,	   NULL, 'H' },
   { "version",	no_argument,	   NULL, 'V' },
   { "tty",	no_argument,       NULL, 't' },
+  { "nw",	no_argument,       NULL, 't' },
   { "create-frame", no_argument,   NULL, 'c' },
   { "alternate-editor", required_argument, NULL, 'a' },
 #ifndef NO_SOCKETS_IN_FILE_SYSTEM
@@ -474,7 +475,7 @@ decode_options (argc, argv)
 
   while (1)
     {
-      int opt = getopt_long (argc, argv,
+      int opt = getopt_long_only (argc, argv,
 #ifndef NO_SOCKETS_IN_FILE_SYSTEM
 			     "VHnea:s:f:d:tc",
 #else
@@ -601,7 +602,7 @@ Every FILE can be either just a FILENAME
 The following OPTIONS are accepted:\n\
 -V, --version		Just print version info and return\n\
 -H, --help    		Print this usage information message\n\
--t, --tty    		Open a new Emacs frame on the current terminal\n\
+-nw, -t, --tty 		Open a new Emacs frame on the current terminal\n\
 -c, --create-frame    	Create a new frame instead of trying to\n\
 			use the current Emacs frame\n\
 -e, --eval    		Evaluate the FILE arguments as ELisp expressions\n\

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