GNU bug report logs - #646
emacsclient with no args to behave like -a

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "J. Pablo Fernández" <pupeno <at> pupeno.com>, 646 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#646: emacsclient with no args to behave like -a
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:50:10 +0200

Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> "First, I recommend using the W32 package. W32 has hacked the
> emacsclient in several useful ways. It will start Emacs if it isn't
> already running, it will call "raise-frame" on the Emacs window when
> started, and it permits starting emacsclient without a filename. "[1]

I think that's how emacsclient works these days -- if you set
ALTERNATE_EDITOR to the empty string.  (It starts a new daemon Emacs and
then connects to it.)

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