Re: master f198a5c: Revert "emacsclient: ignore --eval parameters when starting alternate editor"

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2019-09-15 08:13 -0400, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> branch: master
> commit f198a5c5144fdded1400df6e8454e4b1b912c7de
> Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>
>     Revert "emacsclient: ignore --eval parameters when starting alternate editor"
>
>     This reverts commit 6fe661342a24edcaea255c3ba9a37613031554da.
>
>     The alternate editor may be Emacs, which is useful when you want to eval something in an existing Emacs (if it exists), or in a new Emacs if there's no server running.

But if there is no server running, the new Emacs instance does not
actually eval the expression.  This is mentioned in the NEWS file:

,----
| *** emacsclient no longer passes '--eval' arguments to an alternate editor.
| Previously, '--eval' arguments were passed as file names to any
| alternate editor started by '--alternate-editor'.
`----

For that reason, --eval is useless if emacsclient cannot find the server
in Emacs.

Cheers,
       Sven

> ---
>  lib-src/emacsclient.c | 6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib-src/emacsclient.c b/lib-src/emacsclient.c
> index e9469f7..65effc6 100644
> --- a/lib-src/emacsclient.c
> +++ b/lib-src/emacsclient.c
> @@ -700,11 +700,7 @@ fail (void)
>  {
>    if (alternate_editor)
>      {
> -      /* If the user has said --eval, then those aren't file name
> -	 parameters, so don't put them on the alternate_editor command
> -	 line. */
> -      size_t extra_args_size =
> -	(eval? 0: (main_argc - optind + 1) * sizeof (char *));
> +      size_t extra_args_size = (main_argc - optind + 1) * sizeof (char *);
>        size_t new_argv_size = extra_args_size;
>        char **new_argv = xmalloc (new_argv_size);
>        char *s = xstrdup (alternate_editor);
>
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