Re: gnuserve switches to the old Emacs window but does not open the file

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Bernhard Koenig wrote:
> I'm using a Windows machine with Emacs 22.0.50.1.
> I also installed the gnuserve package and it seems to be correctly 
> installed,
> my .emacs contains
>  
> (require 'gnuserv)
> (setq gnuserv-frame (car (frame-list)))
> (gnuserv-start)
>  
> (defadvice server-find-file (around ignore-percent-one (file) activate)
>   (if (or (not (string= "%1" (file-name-nondirectory file)))
>           (file-exists-p file))
>     ad-do-it))
>  
> At times, when I use the command "gnuclientw -F filename.txt" this 
> will only
> switch to the old emacs window but NOT open the file "filename.txt". Once
> this happened, I cannot pass any more files to this old window but have to
> close it. Closing then produces a beep on my machine, while usually 
> emacs does not
> beep when exiting. In the message box, the line "Server subprocess exited"
> appears sometimes, which seems to be related to this problem.
>  
> The problem shows up sometimes but not all the times, I couldn't quite
> figure out when it does and when not. E.g. if I click two files with 
> gnuclientw
> in a very short interval, then it usually works. The longer the 
> interval, the more
> likely the problem occurs.
There are several gnuserve packages. Please use the latest from EmacsW32 
(http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html) or Guy Gascoigne-Piggford 
website.

There is a name clash between the package server.el and gnuserv.el in 
the old packages.