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README updates. git-archimport-id: lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-141
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1 -*- coding: utf-8; mode: text; -*-
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2 GOAL
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5 The goal of this branch is to implement support for opening multiple,
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6 different tty devices and simultaneous X and tty frames from a single
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7 Emacs session.
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9 Some use cases:
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10 Emacs is notoriously slow at startup, so most people use another
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11 editor or emacsclient for quick editing jobs from the console.
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12 Unfortunately, emacsclient was very awkward to use, because it did not
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13 support opening a new Emacs frame on the current virtual console.
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14 Now, with multi-tty support, it can do that. (Emacsclient starts up
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15 faster than vi!)
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17 Some Gnus users (including me) run Gnus in an X frame in its own Emacs
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18 instance, which they typically leave running for weeks. It would be
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19 nice if they could connect to this instance from a remote ssh session
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20 and check their messages without opening a remote X frame or resorting
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21 to gnus-slave.
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26 I'm Károly Lőrentey. My address: lorentey@elte.hu.
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28 Comments, bug reports, suggestions and patches are welcome!
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30 Retrieving the latest version of the branch:
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32 tla register-archive lorentey@elte.hu--2004 http://lorentey.web.elte.hu/arch/2004/
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33 tla get lorentey@elte.hu--2004/emacs--multi-tty <directory>
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35 (I use a recent arch development snapshot, but any of the released
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36 versions of arch will do fine, I think.)
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38 If you don't have arch, the branch has a homepage from which you can
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39 download conventional patches against Emacs CVS HEAD:
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41 http://lorentey.web.elte.hu/project/emacs.html
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43 If you want to be notified of new revisions, sign up to the
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44 multi-tty@listbox.elte.hu mailing list by visiting the
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45 below homepage and following its instructions.
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47 https://listbox.elte.hu/mailman/listinfo/multi-tty
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49 Please note that the multi-tty mailing list is read-only, and is
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50 reserved for automatic commit messages. Discussion about the branch
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51 and bug reports should be sent directly to me (lorentey@elte.hu), or
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52 to the emacs-devel@gnu.org mailing list. (I hope to merge my branch
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53 into CVS HEAD reasonably soon, so I don't want to set up an elaborate
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54 development infrastructure for the multi-tty branch.)
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59 The branch is now very stable and almost full-featured. I hope the
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60 major problems were fixed. (It still needs testing on other
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61 architectures, though.) Both multiple tty device support and
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62 simultaneous X and tty frame support works fine. Emacsclient has been
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63 extended to support opening new tty and X frames. It has been changed
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64 open new Emacs frames by default.
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66 Please let me know if you find any bugs in this branch.
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68 HOW TO COMPILE AND TEST
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71 To try out the multi-tty branch, compile and run the multi-tty branch
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72 with the following commands:
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74 find -name "*.elc" | xargs rm # Delete leftover stuff
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75 mkdir +build
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76 cd +build
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77 ../configure <your favourite options>
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78 make bootstrap
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79 src/emacs -nw # You can also try without -nw
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80 M-x server-start
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82 and then (from a shell prompt on another terminal) start emacsclient
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83 with
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85 or
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88 You'll hopefully have two fully working, independent frames on
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89 separate terminals. The new frame is closed automatically when you
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90 finish editing the specified files (C-x #), but delete-frame (C-x 5 0)
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91 also works. Of course, you can create frames on more than two tty
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92 devices.
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94 Creating new frames on the same tty with C-x 5 2 works, and they
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95 behave the same way as in previous Emacs versions. If you exit emacs,
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96 all terminals should be restored to their previous states.
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98 This is work in progress, and probably full of bugs. You should
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99 always run emacs from gdb, so that you'll have a live instance to
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100 debug if something goes wrong. Please send me your bug reports.
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102 I think the best way to use the new Emacs is to have it running inside
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103 a disconnected GNU screen session, and always use emacsclient for
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104 normal work. This way not a single keystroke of your work will be
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105 lost if the display device that you are using crashes, or the network
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106 connection times out, or whatever. As long as the server that runs
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107 your Emacs remains up, all your buffers remain exactly as they were
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108 before the crash, and you can continue working as if nothing had
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109 happened. (I had an extremely unstable X server for some time while I
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111 a number of M-x recover-session invocations.)
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113 (I am thinking about introducing a --daemon option to get rid of the
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116 Problems:
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118 * Mac, Windows and DOS support is broken, probably doesn't
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119 even compile -- this will be solved later.
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128 ** Support for multiple terminal devices has been added.
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129
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130 *** You can specify a terminal device (`tty' parameter) and a terminal
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133 *** You can test for the presence of multiple terminal support by
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134 testing for the `multi-tty' feature.
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135
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136 *** Emacsclient has been extended to support opening a new terminal
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138 default. Use the -c option to get the old behavior of opening
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139 files in the currently selected Emacs frame.
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141 *** A make-frame-on-tty function has been added to make it easier to
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142 create frames on new terminals.
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144 *** New functions: frame-tty-name, frame-tty-type for accessing
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145 terminal parameters, and delete-tty for closing the terminal
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146 device.
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148 *** talk.el has been extended for multiple tty support.
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151 ** Support for simultaneous graphical and terminal frames has been
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152 added.
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153
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154 *** The function `make-frame-on-display' now works during a terminal
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155 session, and `make-frame-on-tty' works during a graphical session.
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157 *** The `window-system' variable has been made frame-local.
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159 *** The new `initial-window-system' variable contains the
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160 `window-system' value for the first frame.
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161
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162 THANKS
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163 ------
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164
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165 The following is an (incomplete) list of people who have contributed
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166 to the project by testing, bug reports, and suggestions. Thanks!
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167
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168 Robert J. Chassell <bob at rattlesnake dot com>
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169 Romain Francoise <romain at orebokech dot com>
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170 Ami Fischman <ami at fischman dot org>
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171 Istvan Marko <mi-mtty ar kismala dot com>
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172 Dan Nicolaescu <dann at ics dot uci dot edu>
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173 Gergely Nagy <algernon at debian dot org>
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174 Mark Plaksin <happy at mcplaksin dot org>
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175 Francisco Borges <borges at let dot rug dot nl>
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176 Frank Ruell <stoerte at dreamwarrior dot net>
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178 Richard Stallman was kind enough to review an earlier version of my
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179 patches.
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180
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184 See arch logs.
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186 THINGS TO DO
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187 ------------
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188
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189 ** Fix set-input-mode for multi-tty. It's a truly horrible interface;
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190 what if we'd blow it up into several separate functions (with a
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191 compatibility definition)?
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192
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193 ** Emacs assumes that all terminal frames have the same locale
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194 settings as Emacs itself. This may lead to bogus results in a
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195 multi-locale setup. (E.g., while logging in from a remote client
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196 with a different locale.)
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197
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198 ** The single-keyboard mode of MULTI_KBOARD is extremely confusing
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199 sometimes; Emacs does not respond to stimuli from other keyboards.
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200 At least a beep or a message would be important, if the single-mode
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201 is still required to prevent interference. (Reported by Dan
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202 Nicolaescu.) (Update: selecting a region with the mouse enables
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203 single_kboard under X. This is very confusing.)
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204
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205 ** Change Lisp code not to (getenv "TERM"); use the `tty-type' frame
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206 parameter or the frame-tty-type function instead. (M-x tags-search
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207 "TERM" helps with this.) Update: Actually, all getenv invocations
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208 should be checked for multi-tty compatibility, and an interface
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209 must be implemented to get the remote client's environment.
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210
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211 ** The terminal customization files in term/*.el tend to change global
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212 parameters, which may confuse Emacs with multiple displays. Change
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213 them to tweak only frame-local settings, if possible.
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214
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215 ** Dan Nicolaescu suggests that -nw should be added as an alias for -t
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216 in emacsclient. Good idea. (Alas, implementing this is not
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217 trivial, getopt_long does not seem to support two-letter ``short''
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218 options. Patches are welcome.) :-)
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219
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220 ** Mark Plaksin suggests that emacsclient should accept the same
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221 X-related command-line arguments as Emacs. Most of the X-related
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222 argument-handling is done in Lisp, so this should be quite easy to
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223 implement.
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224
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225 ** Gergely Nagy suggests that C-x # should only kill the current
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226 frame, not any other emacsclient frame that may have the same file
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227 opened for editing. I think I agree with him.
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228
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229 ** Miles Bader suggests that C-x C-c on an emacsclient frame should
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230 only close the frame, not exit the entire Emacs session.
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231
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232 ** Make `struct display' accessible to Lisp programs. Accessor functions:
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233
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234 (displayp OBJECT): Returns t if OBJECT is a display.
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236 (display-list): Returns list of currently active displays.
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237
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238 (selected-display): Returns the display object of the selected frame.
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239
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240 (frame-display FRAME): Returns the display object of FRAME.
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241
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242 (display-frames DISPLAY): Returns a list of frames on DISPLAY.
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244 (display-type DISPLAY): Returns the type of DISPLAY, as a
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245 symbol. (See `framep'.)
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246
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247 (display-device DISPLAY): Returns the name of the device that
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248 DISPLAY uses, as a string. (E.g: "/dev/pts/16", or
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249 ":0.0")
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250
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251 etc.
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252
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253 See next issue why this is necessary.
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257 $ emacsclient -t
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258 C-z
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259 $ emacsclient -t
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260 (This fails now.)
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261
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262 The cleanest way to solve this is to allow multiple displays on the
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263 same terminal device; each new emacsclient process should create
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264 its own display. As displays are currently identified by their
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265 device names, this is not possible until struct display becomes
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266 accessible as a Lisp-level object.
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267
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268 ** Add an elaborate mechanism for display-local variables. (There are
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269 already a few of these; search for `terminal-local' in the Elisp
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270 manual.)
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271
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272 ** Very strange bug: visible-bell does not work on secondary
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273 terminals in xterm and konsole. The screen does flicker a bit,
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274 but it's so quick it isn't noticable.
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275
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276 ** Clean up the frame-local variable system. I think it's ugly and
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277 error-prone. But maybe I just haven't yet fully understood it.
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278
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279 ** Move baud_rate to struct display.
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280
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281 ** Implement support for starting an interactive Emacs session without
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282 an initial frame. (The user would connect to it and open frames
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283 later, with emacsclient.)
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284
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285 ** Fix Mac support (I can't do this myself). Note that the current
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286 state of Mac-specific source files in the multi-tty tree are not
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287 useful; before starting work on Mac support, revert to pristine,
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288 pre-multi-tty versions.
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289
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290 ** Fix W32 support (I can't do this myself). Note that the current
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291 state of W32-specific source files in the multi-tty tree are not
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292 useful; before starting work on W32 support, revert to pristine,
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293 pre-multi-tty versions.
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294
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295 ** Fix DOS support (I can't do this myself). Note that the current
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296 state of DOS-specific source files in the multi-tty tree are not
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297 useful; before starting work on DOS support, revert to pristine,
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298 pre-multi-tty versions.
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299
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300 ** Do a grep on XXX and ?? for more issues.
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301
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302 ** Understand Emacs's low-level input system (it's black magic) :-)
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303 What exactly does interrupt_input do? I tried to disable it for
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304 raw secondary tty support, but it does not seem to do anything
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305 useful. (Update: Look again. X unconditionally enables this, maybe
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306 that's why raw terminal support is broken again. I really do need
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307 to understand input.)
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308
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309 ** Maybe standard-display-table should be display-local.
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311 DIARY OF CHANGES
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312 ----------------
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313
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314 (ex-TODO items with explanations.)
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315
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316 -- Introduce a new struct for terminal devices.
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317
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318 (Done, see struct tty_output. The list of members is not yet
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321 -- Change the bootstrap procedure to initialize tty_list.
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323 (Done, but needs review.)
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325 -- Change make-terminal-frame to support specifying another tty.
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326
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327 (Done, new frame parameters: `tty' and `tty-type'.)
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329 -- Implement support for reading from multiple terminals.
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330
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331 (Done, read_avail_input tries to read from each terminal, until one
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332 succeeds. MULTI_KBOARD is not used. Secondary terminals don't send
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333 SIGIO!)
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334
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335 (Update: They do, now.)
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336
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337 (Update2: After enabling X, they don't.)
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339 -- other-frame should cycle through the frames on the `current'
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340 terminal only.
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341
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342 (Done, by trivially modifiying next_frame and prev_frame.)
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344 -- Support different terminal sizes.
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346 (Done, no problem.)
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348 -- Make sure terminal resizes are handled gracefully. (Could be
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349 problematic.)
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351 (Done. We don't get automatic SIGWINCH for additional ttys,
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352 though.)
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354 -- Extend emacsclient to automatically open a new tty when it connects
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355 to Emacs.
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357 (Done. It's an ugly hack, needs more work.)
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359 -- Redisplay must refresh the topmost frame on *all* terminals, not
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360 just the initial terminal.
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362 (Done, but introduced an ugly redisplay problems. Ugh.)
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364 -- Fix redisplay problems.
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365
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366 (Done; it turned out that the entire Wcm structure must be moved
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367 inside tty_output. Why didn't I catch this earlier?)
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369 -- Provide a way for emacsclient to tell Emacs that the tty has been
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370 resized.
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372 (Done, simply forward the SIGWINCH signal.)
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374 -- Each keypress should automatically select the frame corresponding
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375 to the terminal that it was coming from. This means that Emacs
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376 must know from which terminal the last keyboard event came from.
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378 (Done, it was quite simple, the input event system already
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379 supported multiple frames.)
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380
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381 -- Fix SIGIO issue with secondary terminals.
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382
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383 (Done, emacsclient signals Emacs after writing to the proxy pseudo
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384 terminal. Note that this means that multi-tty does not work with
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385 raw ttys!)
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386
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387 (Update: This is bullshit. There is a read_input_waiting function,
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388 extend that somehow.)
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389
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390 (Update of update: The first update was not right either, extending
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391 read_input_waiting was not necessary. Secondary ttys do seem to
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392 send signals on input.)
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393
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394 (Update^3: Not any more.)
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395
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396 -- Make make-terminal-frame look up the `tty' and `tty-type' frame
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397 parameters from the currently selected terminal before the global
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398 default.
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399
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400 (Done.)
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401
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402 -- Put all cached terminal escape sequences into struct tty_output.
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403 Currently, they are still stored in global variables, so we don't
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404 really support multiple terminal types.
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405
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406 (Done. It was not fun.)
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407
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408 -- Implement sane error handling after initialization. (Currently
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409 emacs exits if you specify a bad terminal type.) The helpful error
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410 messages must still be provided when Emacs starts.
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411
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412 (Done.)
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413
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414 -- Implement terminal deletion, i.e., deleting local frames, closing
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415 the tty device and restoring its previous state without exiting
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416 Emacs.
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417
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418 (Done, but at the moment only called when an error happens during
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419 initialization. There is a memory corruption error around this
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420 somewhere.) (Update: now it is fully enabled.)
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421
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422 -- Implement automatic deletion of terminals when the last frame on
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423 that terminal is closed.
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424
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425 (Done.)
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426
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427 -- Restore tty screen after closing the terminal.
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428
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429 (Done, we do the same as Emacs 21.2 for all terminals.)
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430
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431 -- 'TERM=dumb src/emacs' does not restore the terminal state.
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432
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433 (Done.)
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434
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435 -- C-g should work on secondary terminals.
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436
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437 (Done, but the binding is not configurable.)
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438
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439 -- Deal with SIGHUP in Emacs and in emacsclient. (After this, the
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440 server-frames may be removed from server.el.)
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441
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442 (Done, nothing to do. It seems that Emacs does not receive SIGHUP
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443 from secondary ttys, which is actually a good thing.) (Update: I
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444 think it would be a bad idea to remove server-frames.)
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445
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446 -- Change emacsclient/server.el to support the -t argument better,
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447 i.e. automatically close the socket when the frame is closed.
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448
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449 (Seems to be working OK.)
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450
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451 -- Fix mysterious memory corruption error with tty deletion. To
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452 trigger it, try the following shell command:
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453
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454 while true; do TERM=no-such-terminal-definition emacsclient -h; done
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455
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456 Emacs usually dumps core after a few dozen iterations. (The bug
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457 seems to be related to the xfreeing or bzeroing of
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458 tty_output.Wcm. Maybe there are outside references to struct Wcm?
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459 Why were these vars collected into a struct before multi-tty
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460 support?)
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461
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462 (Done. Whew. It turned out that the problem had nothing to do
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463 with hypothetical external references to Wcm, or any other
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464 tty_output component; it was simply that delete_tty closed the
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465 filehandles of secondary ttys twice, resulting in fclose doubly
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466 freeing memory. Utterly trivial matter. I love the C's memory
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467 management, it puts hair on your chest.)
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468
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469 -- Support raw secondary terminals. (Note that SIGIO works only on
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470 the controlling terminal.) Hint: extend read_input_waiting for
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471 multiple ttys and hopefully this will be fixed.
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472
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473 (Done, it seems to have been working already for some time. It
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474 seems F_SETOWN does work, after all. Not sure what made it fail
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475 earlier, but it seems to be fixed (there were several changes
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476 around request_sigio, maybe one of them did it).
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477 read_input_waiting is only used in sys_select, don't change
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478 it.) (Update: After adding X support, it's broken again.)
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479 (Update^2: No it isn't.) :-)
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480
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481 -- Find out why does Emacs abort when it wants to close its
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482 controlling tty. Hint: chan_process[] array. Hey, maybe
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483 noninterrupt-IO would work, too? Update: no, there is no process
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484 for stdin/out.
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485
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486 (Done. Added add/delete_keyboard_wait_descriptor to
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487 term_init/delete_tty. The hint was right, in a way.)
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488
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489 -- Issue with SIGIO: it needs to be disabled during redisplay. See if
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490 fcntl kernel behaviour could be emulated by emacsclient.
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491
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492 (Done. Simply disabled the SIGIO emulation hack in emacsclient.)
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493 (Update: it was added back.) (Update^2: and removed again.)
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494
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495 -- server.el: There are issues with saving files in buffers of closed
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496 clients. Try editing a file with emacsclient -f, and (without
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497 saving it) do a delete-frame. The frame is closed without
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498 question, and a surprising confirmation prompt appears in another
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499 frame.
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500
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501 (Done. delete-frame now asks for confirmation if it still has
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502 pending buffers, and modified buffers don't seem to be deleted.)
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503
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504 -- emacsclient.el, server.el: Handle eval or file open errors when
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505 doing -t.
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506
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507 (Done.)
82985
8d7be2534cbc Delete server frames on server restart.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82983
diff changeset
508
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
509 -- Make parts of struct tty_output accessible from Lisp. The device
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
510 name and the type is sufficient.
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
511
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
512 (Done, see frame-tty-name and frame-tty-type.)
82985
8d7be2534cbc Delete server frames on server restart.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82983
diff changeset
513
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
514 -- Export delete_tty to the Lisp environment, for emacsclient.
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
515
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
516 (Done, see delete-tty.)
82985
8d7be2534cbc Delete server frames on server restart.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82983
diff changeset
517
82990
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
518 -- Get rid of the accessor macros in termchar.h, or define macros for
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
519 all members.
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
520
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
521 (Done.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
522
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
523 -- Move device-specific parameters (like costs) commonly used by
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
524 device backends to a common, device-dependent structure.
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
525
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
526 (Done. See struct display_method in termhooks.h.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
527
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
528 -- Fix X support.
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
529
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
530 (Done. Well, it seems to be working.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
531
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
532 -- Allow simultaneous X and tty frames. (Handling input could be
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
533 tricky. Or maybe not.)
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
534
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
535 (Done. Allowed, that is. It is currently extremely unstable, to
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
536 the point of being unusable. The rif variable causes constant
2ecd1f669db9 Fixed X support, preliminary support for X-tty combo sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82989
diff changeset
537 core dumps. Handling input is indeed tricky.)
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
538
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
539 -- Rewrite multi-tty input in terms of MULTI_KBOARD.
53226
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents:
diff changeset
540
82991
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
541 (Done. In fact, there was no need to rewrite anything, I just
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
542 added a kboard member to tty_display_info, and initialized the
2b26656ff804 MULTI_KBOARD support for ttys. Input-related bugfixes for X+tty sessions.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82990
diff changeset
543 frame's kboard from there.)
82988
f82e3a6f5ccb A few more bugfixes and new features.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82987
diff changeset
544
82992
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
545 -- Fix rif issue with X-tty combo sessions. IMHO the best thing to do
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
546 is to get rid of that global variable (and use the value value in
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
547 display_method, which is guaranteed to be correct).
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
548
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
549 (Done, did exactly that. Core dumps during combo sessions became
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
550 much rarer. In fact, I have not yet met a single one.)
5de4189e659d Got rid of the rif (window-based redisplay interface) global variable.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82991
diff changeset
551
82997
af2d6b850383 Added multi-tty support for talk.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82995
diff changeset
552 -- Add multi-tty support to talk.el.
af2d6b850383 Added multi-tty support for talk.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82995
diff changeset
553
af2d6b850383 Added multi-tty support for talk.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82995
diff changeset
554 (Done.)
af2d6b850383 Added multi-tty support for talk.el.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82995
diff changeset
555
83004
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
556 -- Clean up the source of emacsclient. It is a mess.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
557
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
558 (Done, eliminated stupid proxy-pty kludge.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
559
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
560 -- Fix faces on tty frames during X-tty combo sessions. There is an
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
561 init_frame_faces call in init_sys_modes, see if there is a problem
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
562 with it.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
563
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
564 (Done, there was a stupid mistake in
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
565 Ftty_supports_face_attributes_p. Colors are broken, though.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
566
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
567 -- C-x 5 2, C-x 5 o, C-x 5 0 on an emacsclient frame unexpectedly
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
568 exits emacsclient. This is a result of trying to be clever with
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
569 delete-frame-functions.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
570
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
571 (Fixed, added delete-tty-after-functions, and changed server.el to
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
572 use it.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
573
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
574 -- Something with (maybe) multi-keyboard support broke function keys
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
575 and arrows on ttys during X+tty combo sessions. Debug this.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
576
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
577 (I can't reproduce it, maybe the terminal type was wrong.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
578
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
579 -- Fix input from raw ttys (again).
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
580
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
581 (Now it seems to work all right.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
582
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
583 -- During an X-tty combo session, a (message "Hello") from a tty frame
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
584 goes to the X frame. Fix this.
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
585
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
586 (Done. There was a safeguard against writing to the initial
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
587 terminal frame during bootstrap which prevented echo_area_display
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
588 from working correctly on a tty frame during a combo session.)
7900111db01c Converted display hooks to be display-local. Plus many bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 82997
diff changeset
589
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
590 -- If there are no frames on its controlling terminal, Emacs should
83097
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
591 exit if the user presses C-c there.
83009
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
592
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
593 (Done, as far as possible. See the SIGTERM comment in
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
594 interrupt_signal on why this seems to be impossible to solve this
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
595 in general.)
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
596
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
597 -- During an X session, Emacs seems to read from stdin. Also, Emacs
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
598 fails to start without a controlling tty.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
599
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
600 (Fixed by replacing the troublesome termcap display with a dummy
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
601 bootstrap display during bootstrap.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
602
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
603 -- Do tty output through struct display, like graphical display
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
604 backends.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
605
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
606 (Done.)
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
607
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
608 -- Define an output_initial value for output_method for the initial
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
609 frame that is dumped with Emacs. Checking for this frame (e.g. in
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
610 cmd_error_internal) is ugly.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
611
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
612 (Done, broking interactive temacs.)
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
613
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
614 -- The command `emacsclient -t -e '(delete-frame)'' fails to exit.
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
615
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
616 (Fixed.)
b2b37c85b00a Numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83008
diff changeset
617
83012
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
618 -- frame-creation-function should always create a frame that is on the
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
619 same display as the selected frame. Maybe frame-creation-function
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
620 should simply be removed and make-frame changed to do the right
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
621 thing.
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
622
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
623 (Done, with a nice hack. frame-creation-function is now frame-local.)
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
624
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
625 -- Fix C-g on raw ttys.
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
626
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
627 (Done. I disabled the interrupt/quit keys on all secondary
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
628 terminals, so Emacs sees C-g as normal input. This looks like an
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
629 overkill, because emacsclient has extra code to pass SIGINT to
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
630 Emacs, so C-g should remain the interrupt/quit key on emacsclient
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
631 frames. See the next entry why implementing this distinction would
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
632 be a bad idea.)
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
633
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
634 -- Make sure C-g goes to the right frame with ttys. This is hard, as
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
635 SIGINT doesn't have a tty parameter. :-(
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
636
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
637 (Done, the previous change fixes this as a pleasant side effect.)
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
638
83013
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
639 -- I have seen a case when Emacs with multiple ttys fell into a loop
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
640 eating 100% of CPU time. Strace showed this loop:
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
641
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
642 getpid() = 30284
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
643 kill(30284, SIGIO) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
644 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) @ 0 (0) ---
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
645 ioctl(6, FIONREAD, [0]) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
646 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
647 ioctl(0, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
648 sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
649 gettimeofday({1072842297, 747760}, NULL) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
650 gettimeofday({1072842297, 747806}, NULL) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
651 select(9, [0 3 5 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 2 (in [5 6], left {0, 0})
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
652 select(9, [0 3 5 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 2 (in [5 6], left {0, 0})
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
653 gettimeofday({1072842297, 748245}, NULL) = 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
654
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
655 I have seen something similar with a single X frame, but have not
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
656 been able to reproduce it for debugging.
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
657
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
658 Update: This may have been caused by checking for nread != 0
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
659 instead of nread > 0 after calling read_socket_hook in
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
660 read_avail_input.
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
661
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
662 (Fixed. This was caused by unconditionally including stdin in
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
663 input_wait_mask in init_process. The select call in
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
664 wait_reading_process_input always returned immediately, indicating
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
665 that there is pending input from stdin, which nobody read.
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
666
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
667 Note that the above strace output seems to be an unrelated but
e77d1a63471b Don't select on stdin unconditionally.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83012
diff changeset
668 similar bug. I think that is now fixed.)
83012
4aa172a45af1 Fix C-g handling with multiple ttys.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83009
diff changeset
669
83014
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
670 -- Exiting Emacs while there are emacsclient frames doesn't restore the
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
671 ttys to their default states.
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
672
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
673 (This seems to be fixed by some previous change.)
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
674
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
675 -- Allow opening an X session after -nw.
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
676
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
677 (Done.)
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
678
83021
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
679 -- Fix color handling during tty+X combo sessions. (It seems that tty
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
680 sessions automatically convert the face colors to terminal colors
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
681 when the face is loaded. This conversion must happen instead on
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
682 the fly in write_glyphs, which might be problematic, as color
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
683 approximation is currently done in lisp (term/tty-colors.el).)
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
684 (Update: hm, colors seem to work fine if I start emacs with -nw and
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
685 then create an X frame. Maybe it's just a small buglet somewhere.)
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
686
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
687 (Seems to be fixed. The problem was in startup.el, it did not
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
688 initialize tty colors when the initial window system was
32bf8e7cc0c2 Fixed tty faces during combo sessions. Plus other assorted bugfixes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83020
diff changeset
689 graphical.)
83014
f5cadabb36dd Support for opening X frames from a tty session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83013
diff changeset
690
83023
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
691 -- emacs -nw --eval '(y-or-n-p "Foobar")' segfaults. (Reported by
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
692 Romain Francoise)
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
693
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
694 (Fixed, there was a keyboard initialization problem.)
6ce586a7243e Set the keyboard of the initial frame correctly.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83021
diff changeset
695
83024
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
696 -- Fix interactive use of temacs. There are face-related SEGVs, most
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
697 likely because of changes in realize_default_face, realize_face.
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
698
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
699 (Fixed.)
e66f69c4f2c5 Fixed interactive temacs.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83023
diff changeset
700
83028
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
701 -- Don't exit Emacs when the last X connection fails during a
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
702 multi-display session.
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
703
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
704 (Fixed.)
bf5b5fb49420 Don't exit Emacs when the X display is closed during a tty-X combo session.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83024
diff changeset
705
83032
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
706 -- Dan Nicolaescu noticed that starting emacsclient on the same
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
707 terminal device that is the controlling tty of the Emacs process
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
708 gives unexpected results.
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
709
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
710 (Fixed.)
b8237c556f0e Fix the case when emacsclient is run on Emacs's controlling tty.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83028
diff changeset
711
83035
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
712 -- Istvan Marko reported that Emacs hang on ttys if it was started
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
713 from a shell script.
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
714
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
715 (Fixed. There was a bug in the multi-tty version of
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
716 narrow_foreground_group. tcsetpgrp blocks if it is called from a
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
717 process that is not in the same process group as the tty.)
fcf6fc349e0d Don't hang on the tty if called from a shell script.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83032
diff changeset
718
83064
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
719 -- emacsclient -t from an Emacs term buffer does not work, complains
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
720 about face problems. This can even lock up Emacs (if the recursive
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
721 frame sets single_kboard). Update: the face problems are caused by
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
722 bugs in term.el, not in multi-tty. The lockup is caused by
83097
01716205773e README changes.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83084
diff changeset
723 single_kboard mode, and is not easily resolvable. The best thing to
83064
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
724 do is to simply refuse to create a tty frame of type `eterm'.
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
725
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
726 (Fixed, changed emacsclient to check for TERM=eterm. The face
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
727 complaints seem to be caused by bugs in term.el; they are not
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
728 related to multi-tty.)
e7e9448cb3a0 Make emacsclient refuse to create a frame inside an Emacs term buffer.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83063
diff changeset
729
83065
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
730 -- Find out the best way to support suspending Emacs with multiple
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
731 ttys. My guess: disable it on the controlling tty, but from other
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
732 ttys pass it on to emacsclient somehow. (It is (I hope) trivial to
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
733 extend emacsclient to handle suspend/resume. A `kill -STOP' almost
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
734 works right now.)
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
735
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
736 (Done. I needed to play with signal handling and the server
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
737 protocol a bit to make emacsclient behave as a normal UNIX program
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
738 wrt foreground/background process groups.)
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
739
83069
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
740 -- There is a flicker during the startup of `emacs -nw'; it's as if
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
741 the terminal is initialized, reset and then initialialized again.
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
742 Debug this. (Hint: narrow_foreground_group is called twice during
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
743 startup.)
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
744
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
745 (This is gone.)
a39b38a5d680 README updates.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83065
diff changeset
746
83084
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
747 -- Robert Chassell has found serious copy-paste bugs with the
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
748 multi-tty branch. There seem to be redisplay bugs while copying
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
749 from X to a terminal frame. Copying accented characters do not
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
750 work for me.
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
751
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
752 (Patch-124 should fix this, by changing the interprogram-*-function
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
753 variables to be frame-local, as suggested by Mark Plaksin
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
754 (thanks!). I think that the redisplay bugs are in fact not bugs,
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
755 but delays caused by single_kboard --> perhaps MULTI_KBOARD should
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
756 be removed.)
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
757
0d3eea319893 Fix cut'n'paste during a multi-display session (Mark Plaksin, Robert Chassell).
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83076
diff changeset
758
83065
a871be7b26a5 Implemented suspending of emacsclient frames.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
parents: 83064
diff changeset
759
53226
dd3018b4785b Implemented multiple tty support.
Karoly Lorentey <lorentey@elte.hu>
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