Re: patch to make emacs proceed if DISPLAY is unreachable

[Jan D.]

Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:
> Hi: In the past, I've had to administer various machines with NFS 
> mounted homedirs, and from time to time when su'ing I've been bitten by 
> the fact
> that altough DISPLAY was set, emacs couldn't read my .Xauthority
> file (as it was on NHS). I've had a look at the code, and figure oud what's
> going on, (I think), and put together this patch to make emacs proceed
> as if -nw had been supplied if DISPLAY is unreachable for some reason.

Hmm, I prefer the old behaviour.  I often set DISPLAY to a remote machine but 
forget to fix .Xauthority.  I don't want -nw to happen then, I just want Emacs 
to tell me it can not connect to that display.

        Jan D.