Hello, On Thu 25 Jul 2024 at 07:22pm -06, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Package: emacs-pgtk > Version: 1:29.4+1-3 > Severity: normal > > I have Emacs installed in all of my systems. Paricularly, I have > emacs-pgtk all systems where I often use a graphical environment (and > emacs-nox in those where I don't). > > Back when I used X11, if I started Emacs and had no $DISPLAY set, it > would open in a terminal. With emacs-pgtk, the behavior is not the > same: > > $ emacs foobar > > (emacs:3988): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:19:10.887: cannot open display: > $ > > This impacted me because I neede to use a remote machine to do work > via scripts (i.e. dch, debcommit) that call /usr/bin/editor and I > found impossible to hand-specify emacs to use -nw; I ended up > installing emacs-nox, but I don't find it to be an acceptable, > transparent-enough solution. > > I think emacs-pgtk should behave just as emacs-gtk, falling back to > the console if a windowed environment is not found. You know about 'emacs -nw' right? I guess this is an upstream bug. -- Sean Whitton
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