From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spurious error message? Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3e285484-611a-4329-80c9-68baab3c782a@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410231627 1554 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 03:00:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 03:00:27 +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 05:00:20 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 1XRBfG-00061d-6K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 05:00:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRBfF-0007pQ-QK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:00:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.245.197 with SMTP id xq5mr6702977pac.42.1410231444762; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:57:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.57.113 with SMTP id h17mr275139igq.0.1410231444631; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!r2no17203436igi.0!news-out.google.com!ht4ni8igb.0!nntp.google.com!r2no17203435igi.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.21.99; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.21.99 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 02:57:24 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207442 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:99717 Archived-At: On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:16:01 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > 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. Sure its not bugging me too much. Just thought it was a sufficiently glaring bug in the basic usage of alternate-editor that I may be missing something. Maybe I'll just file a bug report