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#51327
28.0.60; emacsclient warns about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when starting daemon on-demand
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Message #84 received at 51327 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
> jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, 51327 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 22:56:24 +0100
>
> >> If it's a new command-line argument, and if the participants in this
> >> discussion can live with it as the solution for this problem, I'm okay
> >> with having it on emacs-28.
>
> That's not an acceptable solution, because it will break the existing
> workflow of users. Furthermore, it will make users jump through hoops to
> achieve functionality which was the default in previous versions.
>
> So, can we please think about a better solution, and not knee-jerk
> something half-baked into Emacs 28, like checking for yet another
> environment variable?
>
> Even reverting to the Emacs 27 behaviour would be better than what has
> been suggested above: In Emacs 27, you can set EMACS_SOCKET_NAME to make
> things work. There's no advantage in introducing yet another variable,
> which would only complicate things.
If you guys can arrive at something that you-all can live with, we can
make some progress, maybe even for Emacs 28. But if everyone will
just keep saying that any solution except the one he/she suggested is
unacceptable, we have a stalemate, and that's not good for anyone.
So my suggestion to all the participants is to abandon the dogmas and
try to find a compromise which will be acceptable. Bonus points for
finding a compromise that is simple enough to fix this on the release
branch.
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