Re: emacsclient bug

[Len Trigg]

On 18/01/2008, at 4:42 AM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> > 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.

But that is not what I want. I want it to open in my existing TTY. How  
can I achieve that? It doesn't seem possible any more.

Cheers,
Len