GNU bug report logs - #41788
28.0.50; emacsclient -t doesn't work with vipe from moreutils

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Platon Pronko <platon7pronko <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:20:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 41788 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Platon Pronko <platon7pronko <at> gmail.com>, 41788 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41788: 28.0.50; emacsclient -t doesn't work with vipe from
 moreutils
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 19:07:01 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> 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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