From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:20:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87slggjtbb.fsf@furball.mit.edu> <455F9024.8080000@student.lu.se> <17759.43936.82301.353794@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85irhbg6zx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17760.11257.78362.216206@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85wt5reo3b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17760.17309.553008.718144@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85slgfcy5v.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <45606E21.9030000@student.lu.se> <45609A48.2080905@gnu.org> <4560B581.3030201@gnu.org> <851wnzb1sz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4560CDBD.3080308@gnu.org> <857ixr9ke7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163985684 13544 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2006 01:21:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Lennart Borgman , Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 02:21:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Glxqa-0005xG-GJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:21:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlxqZ-0005Kv-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:21:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Glxpx-00052h-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:20:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Glxpv-000521-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:20:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Glxpv-00051v-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:20:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.74] (helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Glxpt-0006KD-B9; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:20:37 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.143.67]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20061120012036.OGHT16051.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:20:36 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B73AD862F; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:20:36 -0500 (EST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <857ixr9ke7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun\, 19 Nov 2006 22\:49\:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) 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:62518 Archived-At: > So the "most important use case" according to you is basically a command > line call, not a GUI call. That was not obvious to me. And we are > talking about an emacsclient connection on Windows. AFAIK this has nothing to do with w32-vs-theworld. The same issue exists everywhere. > Wouldn't it be saner if emacsclient just started Emacs (probably with > a specific command line option), and when Emacs was finished with > editing the respective buffer, it would detach itself from emacsclient > which would then exit? Sure. Patch welcome. Maybe you can find a neat wait to do the "detach" part, but off-the-top-of-my-head I can't think of a simple way to do it. Stefan