GNU bug report logs - #2864
running emacsclient uninstalled

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:20:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #24 received at 2864 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 2864 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2864: emacsclient bugs..
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:14:40 -0700 (PDT)

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams <at> gnu.org> writes:

  >      > I.e. you have to have BUILD/src in your PATH, or do make instal (which
  >      > will put emacs in bindir/emacs and emacsclient looks there).
  > 
  >    That's normal, emacsclient will try to start "emacs --daemon", if
  >    you don't have emacs in your PATH, it won't be able to find it.
  >    IMO it won't be a good idea to try to exec ../src/emacs.
  > 
  > Could you explain why you do not think that this would be a good idea?
  > We already do this for elisp files, and any aux. program like
  > movemail.

In emacsclient?
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