GNU bug report logs - #2138
23.0.60; --daemon and ediff-window-setup-function

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:55:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 2138 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 2138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2138: 23.0.60; --daemon and ediff-window-setup-function
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:05:07 -0800 (PST)

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:

  > Start Emacs like this:
  > 
  > 1. emacs -Q --eval "(require 'ediff)"
  > 2. emacsclient -c
  > 3. C-h v ediff-window-setup-function
  > => ediff-setup-windows-multiframe
  > 
  > Now start Emacs like this:
  > 
  > 1. emacs -Q --daemon --eval "(require 'ediff)"
  > 2. emacsclient -c
  > 3. C-h v ediff-window-setup-function
  > => ediff-setup-windows-plain
  > 
  > 
  > I haven't tried debugging this, but my first guess is that
  > ediff-setup-windows-multiframe requires non-nil window-system but (still
  > guessing) when there is no frame window-system evaluates to nil.

You can take --daemon out of this equation, you'd  get the same when
doing 
emacs -Q and emacs -Q -nw
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