GNU bug report logs - #12125
emacsclient should work like "emacsclient -t" when $DISPLAY is not set

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 20:48:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 12125 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12125 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12125: emacsclient should work like "emacsclient -t" when
	$DISPLAY is not set
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:10:38 +0800

Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org> writes:

> When connecting to a host which runs "emacs --daemon" with "ssh -x"
> (so $DISPLAY is not set)
>
> $ emacsclient FILENAME 
>
> says "Waiting for Emacs..." and does not open any frame.
>
> It should instead work like "emacsclient -t FILENAME" and open a
> terminal frame.

Hmm, according to the code in emacsclient.c, emacsclient should already
do the right thing when DISPLAY is not set.  And I verified this by
doing 

$ export DISPLAY=""
$ emacsclient -c FILENAME

=> FILENAME is opened in the terminal.
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