When using daemon mode locally on my computer it works correctly. However, if I login (using ssh -Y) to a computer with an emacs daemon running (started with emacs -Q --daemon) and use emacsclient to connect to it emacsclient does not find the server. I get the error:
emacsclient -n -c
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor. Please use:
--socket-name
--server-file (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
--alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
I can get emacsclient to work if I use --server-file option after I have located the server-file. I have the following bash function which does this automatically:
emc () { emacsclient -n -c --socket-name="$( (find /var/ -name server | grep emacs8060) 2> /dev/null )"}
but emacclient should be able to find the socket on its own. Note that this was present in 23.1 and 23.2 as well.
Bob
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.2 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
of 2010-09-29 on ***
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