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23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:22:16 +0100

Hi,

I found some issues while playing around emacs --daemon.

Here are the first ones.

1.
In (info "(emacs) emacsclient Options") I see:

'As a special exception, if COMMAND is the empty string, then
`emacsclient' starts Emacs in daemon mode and then tries
connecting again.'

This is not really true: as -a has a mandatory, non-empty COMMAND,
it is impossible to call emacsclient this way from command line.

The special exception mentioned above works only if alternate_editor
environment variable is set to empty string.

My suggestion is to
- either change emacsclient.c to accept -a with empty string as COMMAND
or
- state explicitly in Info and in emacsclient.c's help text the way it
really works.

2.
On the same Info page an example is given this way:
'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs +%d %s"'
I think it should be:
'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor=emacs +%d %s"'

Thanks anyway,P

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Message #10 received at 4888 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4888: 23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:41:33 -0500

> 'As a special exception, if COMMAND is the empty string, then
> `emacsclient' starts Emacs in daemon mode and then tries
> connecting again.'

> This is not really true: as -a has a mandatory, non-empty COMMAND,
> it is impossible to call emacsclient this way from command line.

This is not true, it shoujld also work if you do

   emacsclient -a '' <blablabla>
or
   emacsclient --alternate-editor '' ...
or
   emacsclient --alternate-editor= ...

> On the same Info page an example is given this way:
> 'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs +%d %s"'
> I think it should be:
> 'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor=emacs +%d %s"'

Either way should work,


        Stefan

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