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

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 8857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
Subject: Re: bug#8857: display-buffer attempt to pop-up frame in batch mode
	causes	"Unknown terminal type" error
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.)
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