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24.2.50; emacs --daemon broken in tty

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Message #17 received at 12647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Toby Cubitt <toby-dated-1351439087.748fe4 <at> dr-qubit.org>
Subject: Re: bug#12647: 24.2.50; emacs --daemon broken in tty
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:34:42 -0400

>>> In the past, frame.el set x-display-name, but it does not do
>>> that any more.
>> Where did it do it?
> In make-frame-on-display, right before calling
> x-initialize-window-system. (Look at emacs-24.)
>>> The following example frame.el change makes it work again, but someone
>>> should check this area.
>> To a large extent x-display-name should disappear
> But not during a feature freeze.

Agreed.

>> So this part of the code is pretty ugly.  Your patch is probably OK in
>> the sense that it doesn't seem to make things significantly worse.
> It was only an example change showing what the problem seems to be.
> I'm not saying it is the right fix.

We agreed above that we can't afford the right fix for the
feature freeze.


        Stefan

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