From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacsclient startup messages
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 09:49:27 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89f5b07a-9674-5bbd-3c4f-f58e50cf3648@froglet.home.mavit.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4k8qxzfd@gentoo.org>
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 05 Nov 2021, Jim Porter wrote:
>
>> On 11/5/2021 2:40 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>> $ emacsclient -t --alternate-editor=
>>> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
>>> emacsclient: To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
>>> Another Emacs daemon is already running at process id 6084
>>> Error: server did not start correctly
>>> Error: Could not start the Emacs daemon
>>> $
>
>> Why are you (or the Gentoo package) running with `--alternate-editor='
>> if a daemon was already started?
>
> Because the user may not be sure if a daemon is running, and may want to
> start it just in case? Which fails with the patch applied.
Thinking out loud, would systemd socket activation help here, or would that simply move the issue elsewhere?
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html#index-socket-activation_002c-systemd_002c-Emacs
--
Peter Oliver
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-07 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-26 5:26 emacsclient startup messages Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2021-10-26 12:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-26 16:43 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2021-10-26 16:32 ` Jim Porter
2021-10-26 16:46 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2021-10-26 17:03 ` Jim Porter
2021-10-27 5:05 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2021-10-30 17:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-10-30 19:16 ` Jim Porter
2021-10-30 19:47 ` Jim Porter
2021-10-31 10:03 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2021-10-31 15:44 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2021-11-05 7:04 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2021-11-05 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-05 9:40 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-05 16:35 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-05 17:52 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-06 11:35 ` Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2021-11-06 18:40 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-07 9:49 ` Peter Oliver [this message]
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