From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Spurious error message?
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:46:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ultv7di.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d6099564-74ab-4815-9700-7019e4aa1efc@googlegroups.com
Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> $ emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs foo.txt
> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
> To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
>
> After printng which, it starts ok, editing the file!!
>
> IOW I find the error message spurious.
>
> Am I missing something?
I too think this message doesn't make much sense in this context. But
you can presumably safely ignore it.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-09 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-08 6:42 Spurious error message? Rusi
2014-09-09 2:46 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.8494.1410230804.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-09 2:57 ` Rusi
2014-09-09 4:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-09 7:08 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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