MacOs emacsclient does not start

MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi

I just tried 
git revert e96d3c71bdc

And I obtained
hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file...
/Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: can't find
socket; have you started the server?

/Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: To start the
server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".

/Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: No socket or
alternate editor.  Please use:


--socket-name

--server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)

--alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)

error: There was a problem with the editor
'/Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient'.

Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

Indeed in my .login
I have (tcsh)

setenv EDITOR /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient


But I don't understand what's wrong with this setting. In Linux I have

setenv EDITOR /opt/emacs29/bin/emacsclient

And it works fine, I tried to add some parameters to emacsclient in the
above line  but I obtained to many parameters when running source ~/.login


Any idea?
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Re: MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:02:16 +0200
> 
> I just tried 
> git revert e96d3c71bdc
> 
> And I obtained
> hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file...
> /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: can't find
> socket; have you started the server?
> 
> /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: To start the
> server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
> 
> /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: No socket or
> alternate editor.  Please use:
> 
> 
> --socket-name
> 
> --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
> 
> --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
> 
> error: There was a problem with the editor
> '/Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient'.
> 
> Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
> 
> Indeed in my .login
> I have (tcsh)
> 
> setenv EDITOR /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient
> 
> 
> But I don't understand what's wrong with this setting. In Linux I have
> 
> setenv EDITOR /opt/emacs29/bin/emacsclient
> 
> And it works fine, I tried to add some parameters to emacsclient in the
> above line  but I obtained to many parameters when running source ~/.login
> 
> 
> Any idea?

Looks like emacsclient on macOS cannot start the daemon, if there's no
Emacs server already running?

Re: MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Uwe Brauer]

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> Looks like emacsclient on macOS cannot start the daemon, if there's no
> Emacs server already running?


Well but I restarted it, without any success.


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Re: MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:17:36 +0200
> 
> > Looks like emacsclient on macOS cannot start the daemon, if there's no
> > Emacs server already running?
> 
> Well but I restarted it, without any success.

Restarted what?  I didn't say anything about restarting.

Re: MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:17:36 +0200
>> 
>> > Looks like emacsclient on macOS cannot start the daemon, if there's no
>> > Emacs server already running?
>> 
>> Well but I restarted it, without any success.

> Restarted what?  I didn't say anything about restarting.

The emacs server.

So the command  list-processes returns 

server          --      listen  --                        --           Main         (network server on /var/folders/j1/7bbsk0jj6nxd5yxndqwvb1t00000gn/T/emacs501/server)

but emacsclient returns

emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?

emacsclient: To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".

emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:



	--socket-name

	--server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)

	--alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)

So I am really puzzled.

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Re: MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:19:52 +0200
> 
> >> Well but I restarted it, without any success.
> 
> > Restarted what?  I didn't say anything about restarting.
> 
> The emacs server.
> 
> So the command  list-processes returns 
> 
> server          --      listen  --                        --           Main         (network server on /var/folders/j1/7bbsk0jj6nxd5yxndqwvb1t00000gn/T/emacs501/server)
> 
> but emacsclient returns
> 
> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
> 
> emacsclient: To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
> 
> emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:
> 
> 
> 
> 	--socket-name
> 
> 	--server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
> 
> 	--alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
> 
> So I am really puzzled.

Maybe emacsclient looks for the socket in a place different from the
place where the server places the socket?  Try using --socket-file.

Re: MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Po Lu]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
>>> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:17:36 +0200
>>> 
>>> > Looks like emacsclient on macOS cannot start the daemon, if there's no
>>> > Emacs server already running?
>>> 
>>> Well but I restarted it, without any success.
>
>> Restarted what?  I didn't say anything about restarting.
>
> The emacs server.
>
> So the command  list-processes returns 
>
> server          --      listen  --                        --           Main         (network server on /var/folders/j1/7bbsk0jj6nxd5yxndqwvb1t00000gn/T/emacs501/server)
>
> but emacsclient returns
>
> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
>
> emacsclient: To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
>
> emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:
>
>
>
> 	--socket-name
>
> 	--server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
>
> 	--alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
>
> So I am really puzzled.

What is the value of:

  $TEMP

inside Emacs and the shell from which you ran emacsclient?

Re: MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Uwe Brauer]

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> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> What is the value of:

>   $TEMP

> inside Emacs and the shell from which you ran emacsclient?

I am running emacs from within a tcsh shell

And



env | grep TMP

TMPDIR=/var/folders/j1/7bbsk0jj6nxd5yxndqwvb1t00000gn/T/

(The same if I call shell)
So I tried either 


(setq server-socket-dir (format "/var/folders/j1/7bbsk0jj6nxd5yxndqwvb1t00000gn/T/"))) 
and then 
(server-start)

Or 
(setq server-socket-dir (format "/tmp/emacs%d" (user-uid))) 
(server-start)


None of it really helped.

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I support the NATO membership of the Ukraine.
I support the EU membership of the Ukraine. 
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[SOLVED] (was: MacOs emacsclient does not start)

[Uwe Brauer]

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>>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> What is the value of:

>> $TEMP

>> inside Emacs and the shell from which you ran emacsclient?

I have several versions of emacs installed on the Mac, 27,28,29 but 
only emacs27 had the link to  in /usr/local/bin/emacs

I called emacs29 by its name. 

When I changed that, that is I set the link to emacs29 then everything
was fine.
 
The lesson I learned is this, not all names are equal.

Sorry for the noise

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