Package: emacs;
Reported by: sindikat <sindikat <at> riseup.net>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 07:32:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: moreinfo, wontfix
Found in version 24.1.50
Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: sindikat <sindikat <at> riseup.net> To: 11572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#11572: 24.1.50; Emacs executable shadowed by an alias Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 13:28:52 +0600
There is an obscure behavior when command 'emacsclient -c -a ""' cease to create a daemon, when there is none running. To reproduce do the following: 1. Create an alias 'emacs=emacsclient -c -a ""' or executable named 'emacs' in $PATH, which is a shell script with 'emacsclient -c -a ""' it. 2. Kill all daemons if there are such. 3. Run 'emacs'. You would think Emacs finds there is no daemon and runs Emacs daemon and then Emacsclient, but because internally it calls 'emacs' command, it enters an infinite recursion calling emacs alias, which calls emacsclient, which calls emacs alias etc. To correct the behavior, emacsclient should internally use 'which' or some other way to not call the alias, i think. I use Emacs 24, build 20120524 from emacs.naquadah.org on Linux Mint Debian Edition. 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