From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sudo emacsclient Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:22:55 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87r5sqnl4k.fsf@newsguy.com> <87ljiy566t.fsf@iki.fi> <87y6mxyiw1.fsf@fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256592248 9082 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2009 21:24:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:24:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 26 22:24:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N2X2g-0000ls-9H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:23:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43145 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2X2f-0003oN-B6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2X2G-0003ni-D6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2X2B-0003nG-UT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35366 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2X2B-0003nD-PH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57767) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2X2B-0003BI-A3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N2X28-0000T2-PE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:23:20 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:23:20 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:23:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69255 Archived-At: Andreas Politz writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> Teemu Likonen writes: >> >>> On 2009-10-26 19:30 (+0100), Richard Riley wrote: >>> >>>> I use this small script to start emacs :- >>>> >>>> ,---- >>>> | #!/bin/bash >>>> | # edit >>>> | export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 >>>> | emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c $@ >>>> `---- >>> >>> You probably won't need that Bash lying in the background so I would >>> suggest using "exec" there to replace the script shell. Also, quoting >>> "$@" is a good idea so it will quote each expanded positional argument. >>> Like this: >>> >>> exec emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c "$@" >>> >> >> Makes sense. Thanks. > > What is the *magic* export good for ? > > -ap Emacs 23 issues with gtk. Certain menus not appearing. This fixes it for me. It's logged as a debian/ubuntu bug.