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

From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, 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: 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
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