From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:03:32 -0400 Message-ID: <5db096c1-40c7-6841-f451-a4e8e682484d@cornell.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498669460 23656 195.159.176.226 (28 Jun 2017 17:04:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:04:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Cc: 27511@debbugs.gnu.org To: James Nguyen , Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 28 19:04:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dQGNw-0005pY-HA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:04:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQGO1-0004Vk-RH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33308) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQGNp-0004UF-Nv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:04:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQGNm-00045U-JL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dQGNm-00045K-GD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dQGNm-00009L-54 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:04:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:04:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27511 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 27511-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27511.1498669405531 (code B ref 27511); Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:04:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27511) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Jun 2017 17:03:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42837 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dQGNB-00008V-DC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:03:25 -0400 Original-Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu ([128.84.13.244]:42552) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dQGN9-000088-PW for 27511@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:03:24 -0400 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Original-Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id v5SH3Hw5012298; Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.4] (mta-68-175-129-7.twcny.rr.com [68.175.129.7] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id v5SH3GdV017723 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:03:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:133994 Archived-At: 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