please have emacsclient -qa suppress the following 2 lines: emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start". In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) of 2013-10-03 on rose.fo4.net Configured using: `configure '--without-x'' Important settings: value of $LC_COLLATE: en_DK.UTF-8 value of $LC_TIME: en_DK.UTF-8 value of $LANG: en_US.utf8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t evil-mode: t evil-local-mode: t global-undo-tree-mode: t undo-tree-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: : r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g RET Recent messages: ("emacs" ".emacs") Loading term/xterm...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. delete-backward-char: Text is read-only [2 times] Load-path shadows: ~/.emacs.d/evil/lib/ert hides /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/emacs-lisp/ert Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mail-utils shell pcomplete comint regexp-opt ansi-color evil evil-integration warnings evil-maps evil-commands ffap url-parse auth-source eieio byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv gnus-util time-date mm-util mail-prsvr password-cache url-vars evil-types evil-search evil-ex evil-macros evil-repeat evil-states evil-core advice advice-preload evil-common windmove rect evil-digraphs evil-vars ring undo-tree derived easy-mmode help-fns cl-macs gv diff cl cl-lib edmacro kmacro server ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)