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

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:09:05 -0400

martin rudalics wrote:

> Maybe Glenn can tell us what's going on?

Haha, nope, except to point out that you said:

> Meanwhile I checked in two fixes that should assure that
> `display-buffer' doesn't try to pop up a frame with emacs -Q.

whereas the quoted recipe:

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

does not use -Q.

(Therefore I guess it would fail in the same way for anyone using Emacs
23 who happens to have set pop-up-frames = t in their .emacs.)