Subject: bug#1298: allow 'emacsclient -a "emacs --daemon && emacsclient -c"'

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:07:35 -0500

>> >> No need to worry about that: I've already explicitly rejected a tcp-port
>> >> option for server.el in the past, so I'll be happy to give other such
>> >> rejections in the future.
>> > Hmm, you said the reverse here:
>> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/103350
>> Indeed.  Consistency is the hgolm, isn't it?
> hgolm?

http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/foolishconsi.html

> Updated patch that uses -a ""  or --alternate-editor= or
> ALTERNATE_EDITOR="":

Looks OK, except that the whole body of the if, where you do the fork
etc.. deserves its own function.

        Stefan