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From: steveh@moosehead.mips.com (Stephen C. Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Disabling Creation of GNU Emacs X Window
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Date: 11 Oct 90 16:03:56 GMT
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In article <43935@sequent.UUCP>, rullman@sequent.uucp (Brad Rullman) writes:
> Forgive me if this has already been asked a billion times, but could
> some kind soul tell me what to put in my .emacs file to prevent GNU
> emacs from creating a new X window when invoked?  Thanks ...

I had a similar problem, but it was that SOMETIMES a new window would
appear, and sometimes not.  Eventually, I discovered that I would re-use
the current window if that window didn't have the DISPLAY variable set
in my environment.

Steve

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