Re: Multi-tty design (Re: Reordering etc/NEWS)

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Let's get the branch into Savannah and I'll be able to work on my
>> confusion more thoroughly.
>
> emacsclient -t does not work for me at all.  Emacs gets started from
> the Gnome panel for me (so it likely has some weird or none-functional
> controlling tty), and I try emacsclient -t in either an xterm or a
> screen session inside of the xterm.
>
> emacsclient -t /etc/fstab
> just does nothing at all and quits.  In the screen session, the result
> sometimes (but not always) is
> *ERROR*: Cannot open termcap database file
> before it quits.

I cannot reproduce that here.  I tried running Emacs from KDE, and
emacsclient works as expected.

Andreas.

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