;; 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.
+ ;; 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)