Re: Daemon mode wishlist

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

  > The new daemon mode is neat but it's not really useful for me
  > because there's no way to customize the socket name, it always uses
  > the default 'server' socket.  --daemon is processed before --eval so
  > I can't change it with --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' as the
  > preload-emacs script does.

Doesn't --eval '(progn (setq server-name "foo") (server-start))' work?

  > Ideally emacs would have a -S option to set the session/socket name
  > and emacsclient would have switches to list the available sessions
  > and select one, like screen does.

My plan is to change --daemon syntax to be --daemon[=NAME[:PORT]]
Then (daemonp) would return (NAME . PORT)
and change server-start to take NAME and PORT as optional arguments.

Do you want to help implementing/documenting and more importantly
getting this approved?