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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:22:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #27 received at 8857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 8857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8857: display-buffer attempt to pop-up frame in batch mode
	causes	"Unknown terminal type" error
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:09:06 +0200

> Adding similar stuff to emacs-23, I see that display-buffer's cond tries
> the special-display-function branch (no match), the pop-up-windows
> branch (no window-to-use), and ends up in the last branch, where it
> finds a window-to-use every time. So it never tries to pop-up a frame.

Emacs 23 tries to pop up a frame only when the selected frame is a
minibuffer frame.  I shall add an appropriate condition in Emacs 24.

martin
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