GNU bug report logs - #37257
failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Campbell Barton <ideasman42 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 37257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Campbell Barton <ideasman42 <at> gmail.com>, 37257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs
 --eval"
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:01:16 -0700

On 9/14/19 5:15 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I guess just reverting the change in question would fix this
> regressions, but this is a rather strange use case.  What's the point of
> specifying Emacs as the alternate editor?

Presumably, because someone mistakenly started emacsclient even though no Emacs 
server is running.
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