GNU bug report logs - #4888
23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 14:30:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Peter Tury <tury.peter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 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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