Re: with-editor seems like a bug fix

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:

Hi Jonas,

>>>> - Use always emacsclient, locally or remote
>>>> - Check for emacsclient only at the well know places
>>>> - Recommend to use with-editor from ELPA if this fails
>>>
>>> I'd need to see the patch to understand what that means in practice.
>>
>> If Jonas agrees this approach, I could try to puzzle something together.
>
> Sounds good to me in principal.

Sorry for the late reply. I'm very slow these days :-(

> I am unsure whether you plan to add a stripped-down with-editor.el to
> Emacs or implement the mentioned functionality in existing libraries.
> The latter seems more reasonable to me (and I'm guessing that's what
> you had in mind).

Yes, the latter.

I will implement this in several steps. For every step I'll write a bug
report (severity wishlist) first, so we have a place to discuss. And not
to poison the emacs-devel ML with our jabber :-)

> Please also consider these features:
>
> - Add `server-window-alist'.  This would allow both packages and users
>   to specify that certain buffers should be displayed differently from
>   the default specified by `server-window'.

That's the first step. Bug#71971.

> - Allow running `server-start' in multiple emacs instances, without
>   the user/package who calls that, having figure out if another instance
>   is already using the same name.  I.e., something to replace:
>
>     (unless (process-live-p server-process)
>       (when (server-running-p server-name)
>         (setq server-name (format "server%s" (emacs-pid)))
>         (when (server-running-p server-name)
>           (server-force-delete server-name)))
>       (server-start))

I'll check.

> Cheers,
> Jonas

Best regards, Michael.