Subject: Re: Bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval"

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 14:52:51 -0700

Lars, the commit in question is the following, so could you please look 
into Bug#37257? Thanks.

commit 6fe661342a24edcaea255c3ba9a37613031554da
Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date:   Thu Jun 27 20:59:50 2019 +0200

     emacsclient: ignore --eval parameters when starting alternate editor

     * lib-src/emacsclient.c (fail): If the user said --eval, don't
     pass those arguments to the alternate editor as file names.
     Suggested by a patch from Scott Turner (bug#11474).