GNU bug report logs - #2864
running emacsclient uninstalled

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Message #32 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 14:41:34 -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?
  > 
  > I do not understand, are you saying that emacsclient should behave
  > differently from rest of Emacs?

I am saying that IMO things are fine the way they are.
If someone wants to change them, that person needs to justify the need
for a change.

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