From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: James Nguyen <jamesn@fastmail.com>,
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 27511@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:03:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5db096c1-40c7-6841-f451-a4e8e682484d@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E45DAD87-0802-4C81-934E-2476AFD7BF87@fastmail.com>
On 6/28/2017 11:00 AM, James Nguyen wrote:
> "Emacs simply displays those files; otherwise, it displays a buffer named *scratch*, which can be used to evaluate Emacs Lisp expressions interactively."
>
> I think it’s preferable it behaves just like regular ‘emacs’ does, opening a *scratch* buffer as a fallback.
I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of emacsclient:
$ emacsclient --help
Usage: emacsclient [OPTIONS] FILE...
Tell the Emacs server to visit the specified files.
See
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html#Emacs-Server
for typical use cases.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-28 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-28 2:03 bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument James Nguyen
2017-06-28 14:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-28 15:00 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-28 17:03 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2017-06-28 17:22 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-28 17:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-28 23:49 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29 1:13 ` npostavs
2017-06-29 3:35 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29 12:32 ` npostavs
2017-06-29 14:11 ` Ken Brown
2017-06-29 16:48 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29 18:11 ` Ken Brown
2017-06-30 1:06 ` James Nguyen
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