Re: emacsclient bug

[Stefan Monnier]

> I use emacs pretty much exclusively in multi-tty mode, seldom creating
> actual X frames.  I recently switched from the pre-emacs-22 multi-tty
> branch to the new emacs-23 snapshot (from a few days ago) and have
> noticed some changes.

> 1) Start a new emacs in a tty

> 2) (server-start)

> 3) In another shell, do:
>    $ emacsclient <somefilename>

> 4) BUG: emacs opens a new frame.  It should instead load into my
> existing emacs tty.  The old multi-tty emacsclient did this correctly

This is not a bug: the behavior was chosen to better match the previous
non-multi-tty behavior.  You need to add the "-t" argument to tell
emacsclient to open a new frame in the local tty.


        Stefan