GNU bug report logs - #6685
23.2; Discards control characters during boot.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 8743

Found in versions 23.2, 27.0.50

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Message #21 received at 6685 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
Cc: trentbuck <at> gmail.com, 6685 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6685: 23.2; Discards control characters during boot.
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:21:11 +0300
> From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 01:08:55 -0400
> Cc: 6685 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 
> I was trying to reproduce this in Emacs 25, but emacsclient will not
> start up a new emacs instance with emacsclient. According to the
> documentation I have on emacsclient on using the alternative editor
> flag:
> 
> If the value of EDITOR is the empty string, run "emacs --daemon" to
> start Emacs in daemon mode, and try to connect to it.
> 
> So I can't reproduce this issue anymore.  Let me know if I'm missing
> something, please.

Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying.  Starting the daemon
with ALTERNATIVE_EDITOR="" was part of the recipe; you seem to say it
no longer works, although the documentation still says it should?  It
certainly works for me, if I understood correctly what you described.




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