summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>2012-11-09 07:28:27 +0100
committerJan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>2012-11-09 07:28:27 +0100
commitd743088dc22da4b04000d22cb5a6c9b6e7d40c12 (patch)
tree0f1e2a9c5e0c1c28826a02a56fb6d16166dd61a9
parent531bdce69da4206e8c050bac3b65d991be7f934f (diff)
downloademacs-d743088dc22da4b04000d22cb5a6c9b6e7d40c12.tar.gz
* server.el (server-create-window-system-frame): Improved comment.
-rw-r--r--lisp/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--lisp/server.el7
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index bbc36cdf4c3..c5dd2eca746 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-11-09 Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
+
+ * server.el (server-create-window-system-frame): Improved comment.
+
2012-11-08 Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
* server.el (server-create-window-system-frame): Handle Nextstep
diff --git a/lisp/server.el b/lisp/server.el
index ab0dc95a43f..c78e3e376aa 100644
--- a/lisp/server.el
+++ b/lisp/server.el
@@ -842,7 +842,12 @@ This handles splitting the command if it would be bigger than
(unless (assq w window-system-initialization-alist)
(setq w nil))
- ;; Special case for ns.
+ ;; Special case for ns. This is because DISPLAY may not be set at all
+ ;; which in the ns case isn't an error. The variable display then becomes
+ ;; the fully qualified hostname, which make-frame-on-display below
+ ;; does not understand and throws an error.
+ ;; It may also be a valid X display, but if Emacs is compiled for ns, it
+ ;; can not make X frames.
(if (featurep 'ns-win)
(setq w 'ns display "ns"))