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26.0.50; emacsclient --tty FILE flashes previous frame's buffer before loading FILE

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.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: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:50:02 +0200

Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen <at> gmail.com> writes:

> emacs -Q
> M-x server-start
> C-x C-f <pick some file with lots of text>
>
> Back in terminal:
>
> emacsclient --tty <some other file with different text>
>
> Expected:
>
> New frame is created in tty and it displays (immediately) the "other" file
> without flashing the file from the other frame.
>
> Actual:
>
> The file from the first frame is displayed briefly before loading the
> "other" file. With my full config, this "brief" display is roughly 2
> seconds. With emacs -Q it's a pretty quick flash.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I'm unable to reproduce this with Emacs 29 (on Debian/bookworm).  Are
you still seeing this problem in recent Emacs versions?

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