From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spurious error message? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:46:01 +0200 Message-ID: <878ultv7di.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410230823 25683 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 02:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 02:47:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 04:46:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRBSH-0000qp-UP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:46:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRBSH-0004MT-JZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRBRz-0004ME-0j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:46:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRBRq-0002Qy-8S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48715) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRBRq-0002QD-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRBRm-0000fQ-Ez for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:46:22 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-15-226.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.15.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:46:22 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-15-226.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:46:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-15-226.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F9kuEdHkLnGEjxIDHQjmw9bsJGc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99715 Archived-At: Rusi 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.