From: "find lulu" <tpeplt@gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#890: Problem using `etc/emacs.bash' with EmacsW32
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:39:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bb3db200809050839l4e90bd50q80eefe4938144df5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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>>* I am attempting to use the shell script `emacs.bash' that is provided*
>
> Could you explain why you don't ust use emacsclient directly (together
> with its -a argument)?
Your question prompts the question "Why does `etc/emacs.bash' exist at all?"
The reason for `emacs.bash' to exist is to provide a single, consistent
command for editing a file from the bash shell prompt, namely, 'edit'.
It is certainly possible to use alternatives to avoid the problems described,
but if `etc/emacs.bash' is to be included in the Emacs distribution then it
should work for that distribution.
In brief, here are the two problems restated (for EmacsW32):
1. `etc/emacs.bash' does not check for the file `~/.emacs.d/server/server'
that is created when `server-start' is invoked from EmacsW32. As a result,
`emacsclient' is not invoked by the shell function `edit' that is created
when `etc/emacs.bash' is sourced.
2. When `server-start' (in `lisp/server.el') is invoked during the Emacs
shutdown process, it does not remove the file `~/.emacs.d/server/server'
that it created when it was initially invoked. Consequently, additional
calls to the shell function 'edit' do not work properly -- namely, `edit'
should invoke `emacs' instead of `emacsclient' when there is no instance
of the emacs's server running.
These problems should be fixed so that `edit' works for EmacsW32 as it does
for Emacs on other platforms. Some possible fixes were suggested in the
original problem report.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-05 15:39 find lulu [this message]
2008-09-06 12:53 ` bug#890: Problem using `etc/emacs.bash' with EmacsW32 Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 19:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-06 20:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 20:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-09-06 21:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 22:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-03 6:45 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-06 21:20 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-07 4:03 ` find lulu
2008-09-07 9:37 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-07 22:01 ` find lulu
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2008-09-04 19:55 Anonymous Sender
2008-09-05 3:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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