Setting up emacs server mode with Emacs 24.3.x on Ubuntu

Setting up emacs server mode with Emacs 24.3.x on Ubuntu

[dwsmith]

I have recently updated my Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04.  I am using the most
recent Emacs 24.3.x (I don't remember the final digit) with AUCTeX cvs, and
TeX Live 2013.

In my ~/.bash_aliases, I have

     emacs = 'emacsclient -t --alternate-editor='

In my `/.emacs, relate to the server, I have 

    ;; Start server and set directory                                               
    (setq server-socket-dir (format "/tmp/emacs%d" (user-uid)))
    (server-start)

    (custom-set-variables
     '(TeX-PDF-mode t)
     '(TeX-show-compilation t)
     '(TeX-newline-function (quote newline-and-indent))
     '(TeX-source-correlate-method (quote synctex))
     '(TeX-source-correlate-mode t)
     '(TeX-source-correlate-start-server t))

Whenever I try to open some LaTeX files, they won't open at all or I will
get the following message:

dustin@dustin:~/Documents/NUPOC/NUPOCSoln$ emacs SolnNUPOC.tex 
emacsclient.emacs24: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is
unexpectedly lost.
Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this
problem.
("emacs")
Loading 00debian-vars...
Loading 00debian-vars...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cmake-data.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cmake-data.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...
Error while loading 50dictionaries-common: Symbol's value as variable is
void: debian-aspell-only-dictionary-alist
Loading paren...
Loading paren...done
Warning: no abbrev-file found, customize `abbrev-file-name' in order to make
mode-specific abbrevs work. 
Starting Emacs daemon.
Restarting server

I have read in the manual I need to have:

Some programs use a different environment variable; for example, to make TeX
use ‘emacsclient’, set the TEXEDIT environment variable to ‘emacsclient +%d
%s’.

How do I set this?  Or how can I get Emacs server mode to work?

This used to work before I updated Ubuntu and re-installed everything.



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Re: Setting up emacs server mode with Emacs 24.3.x on Ubuntu

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 07:30:43PM -0700, dwsmith wrote:
> 
>     ;; Start server and set directory                                               
>     (setq server-socket-dir (format "/tmp/emacs%d" (user-uid)))

Why do you do this?  If you are using a custom socket name, then maybe
you need to pass this on to the client.  See the commandline option -s.

Hope this helps,

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