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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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: display-buffer attempt to pop-up frame in batch mode causes "Unknown
	terminal type" error
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:21:30 -0400

Package: emacs

With the current trunk:

./src/emacs -Q -batch README INSTALL Makefile
Loading vc-bzr...
Unknown terminal type

(exits with status /= 0)

OK, this is not a very sensible example, but it illustrates the point.
It's caused by display-buffer trying to pop-up a frame in batch-mode and
is very recent.

Emacs 23 does not have this problem by default, but the following shows
the same issue:

emacs-23.3 -Q -batch --eval '(setq pop-up-frames t)' README INSTALL Makefile
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