GNU bug report logs - #16507
24.3; systemd unit for a GNU Emacs daemon

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp Moeller <bootsarehax <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:48:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger <at> c-plusplus.de>
To: 16507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#16507: [RFC] Add a systemd service file for dealing with emacs --daemon.
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:26:58 +0100

On Wednesday 03 December 2014 22:00:44 Glenn Morris wrote:
> Thanks, looks nice.
> (Don't see why it needed to be posted to two mailing lists though.)

Sorry about that.

> Should the name of the service file not respect program-transform though?
> Ie, if I am installing the Emacs binary as "emacs24", should the service
> file not be installed as "emacs24.service"?

That makes sense and would solve the problem of having several Emacs versions 
installed.

I'm a bit afraid that using the directory given by systemd might be confusing 
because it won't respect the prefix set by the user.  E.g., Emacs being 
installed to /usr/local but the service file going to /usr/lib/systemd/user.  
However, I think this is just the way systemd expects things to be and it 
would be up to the systemd developers to change this.

Regards,
Rüdiger
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