Subject: bug#8857: display-buffer attempt to pop-up frame in batch mode causes "Unknown terminal type" error

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:45:23 +0200

> Is this supposed to also fix the problem for batch mode? Because I still
 > see this error with revno. 104589:

It was supposed to fix that, yes.

 >  --> emacs --batch foo bar baz
 > Unknown terminal type

Can you check whether `display-buffer' tries to pop up a new buffer?  I
don't have the slightest experience running Emacs in batch mode.

 > Actually, this currently breaks the CEDET build, because it uses a hack
 > to provide arguments for functions called with the "-f" switch...

Maybe Glenn can tell us what's going on?

martin