Emacs will only create a new window if none exist

emacsclient single gui

e() {
    #return a list of all frames on $DISPLAY
    emacsclient -e "(frames-on-display-list \"$DISPLAY\")" &>/dev/null
    
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
	emacsclient -n "$@"
	
    else
	emacsclient -nc "$@"
    fi
}