#11 emacsclient -nw still opens new frame/window

[Jason Murphy]

Hi

Thanks for putting this together. As the title says... when I run the emacs --daemon and then try to run emacsclient -nw it opens a new frame instead of.opening in the terminal as expected. I've also tried the -t and --tty flags but the result is the same.

I'm running emacs-w64-25.1-O2-with-modules on windows 10 proffessional if that helps.

JM

[zklhp]

Hello Jason,

Same here. And I think this is the expected beahivor under Windows. Do you have any references that it can work this way?

Sorry,

Chris

[Jason Murphy]

Its unfortunate but it seems you're correct, my research led me to the following:

Note that, due to limitations of MS-Windows, Emacs cannot have both GUI and text-mode frames in the same session. It also cannot open text-mode frames on more than a single Command Prompt window, because each Windows program can have only one console at any given time.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Windows-Startup.html

Thanks,
JM