From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs.bash? Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:05:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200810290605.m9T65fY7015776@mothra.ics.uci.edu> References: <873aig6w1n.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <873aigf0ve.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225260379 30031 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2008 06:06:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 07:07:20 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kv4D5-0006H5-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:07:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kv4By-0004JQ-Ii for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kv4Bt-0004JL-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kv4Bs-0004J9-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59597 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kv4Bs-0004J6-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.120]:33221) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kv4Bp-0006yu-UQ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:05:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m9T65fgV007804; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:05:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by mothra.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id m9T65fY7015776; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:05:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <873aigf0ve.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:04:21 -0400") Original-Lines: 24 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: m9T65fgV007804 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105127 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Glenn Morris writes: > > > Chong Yidong wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know what's the purpose of etc/emacs.bash, as opposed to > >> running `emacsclient -a emacs'? > > > > There is some discussion of this in bug#890 (perhaps this is what > > prompted your question though). > > Thanks, now I remember that discussion. I've removed the mention of > emacs.bash from the Emacs manual. There's still a mention of it (and emacs.csh) in cmdargs.texi > I've also rewritten the documentation of the Emacs server substantially. > If anyone is familiar with the Emacs server/client functionality, I > encourage you to take a look, and check if I screwed up anywhere. Looks good to me. Maybe adding some info about `server-use-tcp' and `server-host' would be useful too, it's hard to find out about those without reading the code.