Re: Daemon mode wishlist

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

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > >> We should change startup.el so that server-start is called after processing
  > >> the .emacs (and the --eval).
  > 
  > > I don't see that as being better, but if someone else wants to do it and
  > > also find a way to solve the problem of specifying the server name and
  > > port on the command line, I won't stand in the way.
  > 
  > It allows the use of
  > 
  >    emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' --daemon
  > 
  > which seems sufficient.  Also it makes server-start take into account
  > the config settings in the user's .emacs.
  > I.e. I thing it's just the right thing to do.

Using --eval is a hack (a Turing complete one), using parameters to
--daemon is more in the spirit of how command line options work (see
what I described in a previous mail: --daemon[=NAME[:PORT]]).
But having that implemented would have increased the size of the patch
(and it's only useful to a very small minority anyway, and that small
minority can use --eval to set the server-name and restart the server).

  > You happened to place the call to server-start just at the same place
  > where you had to disable the call to frame-initialize, but there's
  > really no fundamental reason why it should be there.

Not exactly, I wanted things to work by default, if people change the
server name in .emacs, and use --daemon=NAME, I'd rather want the server
name to be NAME.  But again, if someone wants to change the place where
the server is started, he can go ahead.