GNU bug report logs - #26995
26.0.50; emacsclient --tty FILE flashes previous frame's buffer before loading FILE

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 14:29:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26995: 26.0.50; emacsclient --tty FILE flashes previous frame's buffer before loading FILE
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 20:27:14 +0300

> From: Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 26995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 08:44:03 -0700
> 
> > I can indeed reproduce the described behavior, but I see the same in
> > Emacs 25.2 and in Emacs 24.5.  The reason is simple: the way server.el
> > is written, we first create the client frame, and only then show the
> > file there.  So the frame is created with no file to visit, and Emacs
> > always shows the last buffer in the new frame in those cases.
> 
> I see, so not a bug then. Is it possible to (easily) improve its behavior?

It should be possible, but AFAICT it would need restructuring
server-process-filter works.
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