Re: 23.0.50; Unable to launch emacsclient from shell buffers:

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"T. V. Raman" <address@hidden> writes:

  > This is while running outside X at the linux console.

I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do.

Please confirm that this is what you are trying to do: 
run emacs on a linux console
run M-x shell in emacs
run emacsclient from the shell buffer. 

If this is the situation, what do you expect emacsclient to do in this
case? 

  > 
  > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
  >     Dan> raman <address@hidden> writes:
  >     >> One can no longer launch emacsclient from shell buffers,
  >     >> if you do you get the folllowing error:
  >     >> 
  >     >> emacsclient foo *ERROR*: Terminal type "dumb" is not
  >     >> powerful enough to run Emacs 22:26:39 labrador ~ $
  >     Dan> 
  >     Dan> This sounds like DISPLAY is not set. What is the output
  >     Dan> of:
  >     Dan> 
  >     Dan> echo $DISPLAY
  >     Dan> 
  >     Dan> 
  >     Dan> I cannot reproduce your problem on my machine.
  > 
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