From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:08:57 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqc7hfau.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87sl5n5yem.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87fy1nbe4f.fsf@jurta.org> <86myvu2zw1.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87d4wodiof.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ir6gtx7w.fsf_-_@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189624192 24425 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2007 19:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 12 21:09:48 2007 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 1IVXak-0006zV-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:09:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVXaj-0007KF-MZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:09:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVXaS-0007Cf-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVXaQ-0007BP-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVXaQ-0007BJ-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVXaM-0008N7-79; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87181E5353; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:09:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96484ABE0E; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:09:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-071-143.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.71.143]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A4E36E863; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:09:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E06611CAD718; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:08:57 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 12 Sep 2007 14\:52\:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:78709 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > ... consider other legitimate use cases such as "sudo emacs FILE" > > That is another bad habit. It is an illegitimate use of the feature. > > It is better not to have a root Emacs running all the time. But each > time you do need one, you will probably visit multiple files in it. > So it is still not a good habit to specify file name args. It is not like specifying file name args would cause Emacs to quit on its own or do anything awful. So I utterly disagree with you here. If I know that I am going to edit one or more files with certain names when calling Emacs, there is no gain whatsoever in using C-x C-f instead of just listing the files on the command line. It is a bad habit to exit Emacs when one might need it soon. But there is nothing to be gained from starting it when one does not actually need to edit anything. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum