Subject: bug#4121: 23.1; "emacsclient -c <file>" woes "emacs --daemon"

From: "Holger Schurig" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:27:37 +0200

It's too easy to kill an emacs-server. Consider this sequence:

$ emacs -Q --daemon
$ emacsclient -c file
C-c C-x     -- or --  C-c #
$ emacsclient -c a
emacsclient: connect: Connection refused
emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:

The effect doesn't happen if I omit the "-c" option from emacsclient.

Unfortunately, without the "-c" option I'll get a text only (tty) client
and not a graphical one.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2009-08-11 on mnz66.mn-solutions.de, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: C
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: C
  value of $LC_MONETARY: de_DE
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: de_DE
  value of $LC_TIME: de_DE
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t