GNU bug report logs - #43645
26.3; emacsclient -c does not open to correct window

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Blue track <bluetrack121 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 43645 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: bluetrack121 <at> gmail.com, 43645 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43645: 26.3; emacsclient -c does not open to correct window
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:09:41 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  43645 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 18:02:02 +0200
> 
> I'm now sure what you mean by "the first emacsclient instance is on top
> also"?

My guess is that the frame created by the first emacsclient invocation
is on top (in the z-order) of that created by the second invocation.
That's probably a WM thing, though.

> When I do this, I get a new Emacs frame with the *scratch* buffer
> displayed

Does this happen even if the second invocation of emacsclient uses a
different file name, not the same test.txt as the first one?
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