emacs client problem

emacs client problem

[Bob Henz]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-05-22 on porky.devel.redhat.com
configured using `configure  --host=i386-redhat-linux --build=i386-redhat-linux --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Don't know if this is a known issue or not...

I'm running Emacs version 21.3.1 and came across the following problem:

I wanted to use the emacsclient command to open multiple files in a single emacs session.

To do so I have the line

(server-start)

added to my .emacs file.

Then I type...

> emacsclient --no-wait myfilename

This works fine because there's at /tmp/esrv2800... file that gets created. As long as that exists everything's happy.

Now let's say I run a second instance of emacs. This still works fine and now any "emacsclient" commands I issue goes to the new editor.

However if I close instance #2 it removes the /tmp/esrv... magic file so my emacsclient commands no longer work despite the fact that I still have emacs instance #1 open.

Seems like the file (/tmp/esrv...) could have a reference count the prevents it from being deleted as long as there's an open emacs instance. (or maybe there's better way, that's just a suggestion.

Thanks,
Bob


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