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

From: David Engster <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:13:39 +0200

Glenn Morris writes:
> 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.

It also fails with "-Q" (and "--batch" implies "-q", at least).

Cheers,
David