Re: gnuclient -display and make-display-on-frame does not work

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:02:59 PDT, Albert Ting <alt(a)artisan.com&gt; said: This is a design brokedness in the gnuserv code - the problem is in gnuserv-edit-files: The visited buffers are memorized, so that when \\[gnuserv-edit] is invoked in such a buffer, or when it is killed, or the client's device deleted, the client will be invoked that the edit is finished. TYPE should either be a (tty TTY TERM PID) list, or (x DISPLAY) list. unfortunately, the code proceeds to do this: (dest-frame (if (functionp gnuserv-frame) (funcall gnuserv-frame (car type)) gnuserv-frame)) and the (car type) causes the 'DISPLAY' to be lost. Meanwhile, the *OTHER* choices for gnuserv-frame are 'gnuserv-main-frame-function', gnuserv-visible-frame-function, and gnuserv-special-frame-function - so basically the only way to make this work is to set gnuserv-special-frame-function so that it returns a Lisp-expression that gets evaluated back in gnuserv-edit-files that looks at (type) rather than (car type). Or so I remember it when I fought this beast a while ago - I solved it by swapping 2 Dell boxes (one at home, one at office) for one laptop, so I'm always editing locally, rather than "on the other machine"....