Re: Problem with splash screen and emacsclient

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> If Emacs is showing the splash screen and you open a file with emacsclient
>>> then Emacs shows that it is in some kind of recursive edit mode. The mode
>>> line may look like this
>>>
>>>
>>> --\-- emacsclient.c   Top L1 CVS:1.91 [(C/l)] ----------------
>>>
>>> Some commands does not work until the splash screens times out. The []
>>> disappears then from the mode line. (You can use M-x top-level to get out
>>> of this state before time out.)
>>>
>>> It seems like emacs server should remove the splash screen just as normal
>>> input events does. But how should that be done? The function showing the
>>> splash screen is doing a (sit-for 120).
> 
> Similar problem happen if you use emacsclient when Emacs is in
> the minibuffer.  It's even worse when used on multiple displays since you
> may be stuck with an active minibuffer in one display to which you currently
> don't have access.
> 
> I use the patch below for that purpose.  I believe it should address your
> problem as well.
> 
> 
>         Stefan


Yes, it does. I think it should be checked in.