GNU bug report logs - #12780
Starting emacs as a daemon, and requesting a client with -n

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Justin Wood <justin.k.wood <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:14:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 12780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Justin Wood <justin.k.wood <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12780: Starting emacs as a daemon,
	and requesting a client with -n
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:54:34 -0400

Justin Wood wrote:

> For the past month or so, when compiling from the latest source, I have
> been having an issue starting Emacs as a daemon (emacs --daemon) and
> requesting a client with "emacsclient -c -n". If I include the "-n"
> option, nothing appears to happen, though, if I request a client with
> just "-c", a new frame does appear.

Thanks for the report. It works fine for me on GNU/Linux, configured
--without-dbus to match your configuration. Does it happen for you with
emacs -Q --daemon? Maybe it is Mac specific.

> In GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin12.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1187.34)
>  of 2012-11-01 on ip-88.2.1.10.in-addr.arpa
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1187
> Configured using:
>  `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD' '--without-dbus'
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