Re: multi-tty breakage on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>,  Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
>         address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:03:59 +0200
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> I think so, the communication between the emacsclient and emacs is
> >> more complex now, more stuff is sent over the wire.
> >
> > AFAICT we could very well make it backward compatible.
> > The first thing to do for that is to change the "-c" argument of emacsclient
> > so that by default it "behaves as before".  Then we can make sure that when
> > it "behaves as before" it sends the same data to the server.
> 
> Where is the point of having an emacsclient not matching the emacs
> version one is using?

I explained when this is incompatibility is an annoyance: when you
use several different versions of Emacs at once.  In that case, it
might well happen that the Emacs that is running the server is
incompatible with emacsclient that's invoked by some application that
calls $EDITOR.