Argument leave-dead to emacs-start is not explained in doc string

Argument leave-dead to emacs-start is not explained in doc string

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Just that.

Re: Argument leave-dead to emacs-start is not explained in doc string

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:37:29 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> 
> Just that.

What is emacs-start, and where is it defined?

(Really, Lennart, you, of all the people, should have known how to
make a proper bug report!)

Re: Argument leave-dead to emacs-start is not explained in doc string

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:37:29 +0100
>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> 
>> Just that.
>
> What is emacs-start, and where is it defined?
>
> (Really, Lennart, you, of all the people, should have known how to
> make a proper bug report!)

M-x apropos-documentation RET leave-dead RET

server-start
  Command: Allow this Emacs process to be a server for client processes.
This starts a server communications subprocess through which
client "editors" can send your editing commands to this Emacs job.
To use the server, set up the program `emacsclient' in the
Emacs distribution as your standard "editor".

Prefix arg means just kill any existing server communications subprocess.

(fn &optional LEAVE-DEAD)


It is somewhat amusing that the function is called "server-start"
rather than "emacs-start" and that the meaning of a prefix argument is
explained in the DOC string.

Let is just assume that Lennart wanted to pretest our abilities to
deal with unfathomable bug reports.

-- 
David Kastrup

Re: Argument leave-dead to emacs-start is not explained in doc string

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
>         emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:47:27 +0100
> 
> M-x apropos-documentation RET leave-dead RET
> 
> server-start

Thanks, I fixed that.

> Let is just assume that Lennart wanted to pretest our abilities to
> deal with unfathomable bug reports.

Obviously, I failed that test quite miserably.