Subject: bug#51360: 29.0.50; variable `server-name' initialized too late for use in init file

From: Gregor Zattler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 10:02:16 +0200

[sorry for second post, first did not include bug address]
Hi Eli, emacs devs,
* Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> [2021-10-25; 05:27]:
>> From: Gregor Zattler <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:00:21 +0200
>>
>> > Whatever you do that you need server-name for, can't you do that in
>> > emacs-startup-hook?  AFAIR, that gets called after the daemon already
>> > finished its initialization and provided its name to Emacs, so
>> > server-name should be already populated.
>>
>> the idea is to initialise the emacs daemon depending on it's
>> server-name.  Therefore doing it via emacs-startup-hook is
>> somewhat counter-intuitive
>
> Sorry, I don't think I follow: what has intuition got to do with this?
> And what do you mean by "initialise the emacs daemon"? -- that happens
> out of your control, in the internal Emacs code.
>
>> But you are right that works.  Thanks.
>
> So does this mean your problem is solved?

Yes, thanks.  Please close the bug report.

Ciao,
--
Gregor