Subject: bug#18431: 24.3; emacsclient spurious error message

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:01:32 +0200

Rustom Mody <[email-masked]> writes:

> Say I dont have emacs running and call emacsclient as follows:
>
> $ emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs foo.txt
>
> Error (warning) message as follows is given:
>
> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
> To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
>
> After printing which, it starts ok, editing the file!!

This has been changed in Emacs 28 -- if you say -q --alternate-editor,
it'll no longer output that message.

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