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Re: 23.0.50; DISPLAY env var bug on w32?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: 23.0.50; DISPLAY env var bug on w32?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:07:16 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:41:31 -0500
> 
> >> > Right now, using -d DISPLAY on Windows causes nothing but trouble.
> >> 
> >> -t / --tty is not specially useful either:
> >> 
> >> C:\emacs> emacsclient -t
> >> emacsclient: could not get terminal name
> 
> > Feel free to ifdef away that one as well.
> 
> Just like the -d option, I think it can stay.

For what purpose?  I think it's wrong to advertise (by --help) options
that don't work or, worse, cause trouble.

> These are options that simply fail to work.

Right, so why have them?




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