Subject: Re: bug#41788: 28.0.50; emacsclient -t doesn't work with vipe from moreutils

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 19:07:01 +0200

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

> That associates the process with /dev/tty, not the real terminal.  But
> the running Emacs process usually does not have a controlling terminal,
> thus it cannot open /dev/tty.  It needs to know the real terminal to be
> able to open a tty frame on it.

This works fine, though:

 echo a | EDITOR="emacs -nw" vipe

It's only when using emacsclient that we get an error...

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