Subject: Re: bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:03:32 -0400

On 6/28/2017 11:00 AM, James Nguyen wrote:
> "Emacs simply displays those files; otherwise, it displays a buffer named *scratch*, which can be used to evaluate Emacs Lisp expressions interactively."
> 
> I think it’s preferable it behaves just like regular ‘emacs’ does, opening a *scratch* buffer as a fallback.

I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of emacsclient:

$ emacsclient --help
Usage: emacsclient [OPTIONS] FILE...
Tell the Emacs server to visit the specified files.

See 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html#Emacs-Server 
for typical use cases.

Ken