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Re: Where is the code for the Emacs server in the core?
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George Plymale II |
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Re: Where is the code for the Emacs server in the core? |
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Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:05:13 -0500 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: George Plymale II <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:51:55 -0500
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>> > The Mac port doesn't support multi-tty with GUI. The developer has no
>> > idea how to detach Emacs as a GUI application from Window Server or
>> > Dock without separating a GUI process (not thread) from the main Emacs
>> > (Lisp evaluator) process. TTY-only multi-tty is supposed to work.
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>> That is Yamamoto Mitsuharu's statement on why multi-tty is not supported
>> on the Emacs Mac Port. Does plain GNU Emacs have this problem? If so,
>> how does it get around or solve it? I have to assume that plain GNU
>> Emacs is also attached to the Window Server or Dock as well so I'm
>> wondering if there's something I'm missing.
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> I know nothing about how macOS works wrt GUI applications, so I don't
> understand what is meant by "attached to the Window Server or Dock",
> nor how to compare that with what Emacs does on X, sorry. Perhaps
> someone else could chime in.
No problem, Alan has given some useful input on my conjectures.