From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Erik Iverson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient problem Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:14:51 -0600 Message-ID: <491E76EB.2070306@biostat.wisc.edu> References: <1226723855.11475.4.camel@lirh-laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226735991 31540 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2008 07:59:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ruohao Li Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 09:00:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L1G5M-00007y-H3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:00:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1G4E-0008F2-DI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:59:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1FLz-0001FU-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:13:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L1FLx-0001FI-0L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:13:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41622 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L1FLw-0001FF-RR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:13:56 -0500 Original-Received: from pegasus.biostat.wisc.edu ([144.92.73.35]:36882) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1FLw-0004di-TN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:13:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.116] (c-24-118-170-198.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.118.170.198]) (authenticated bits=0) by pegasus.biostat.wisc.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mAF7DcQO005836 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:13:42 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) In-Reply-To: <1226723855.11475.4.camel@lirh-laptop> X-BCG-MailScanner-Information: BCG: sysreq@biostat.wisc.edu X-BCG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BCG-MailScanner-From: iverson@biostat.wisc.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:58:44 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59808 Archived-At: Ruohao Li wrote: > I'm using the latest emacs-snapshot (emacs23) on Ubuntu. I have > (server-start) in my .emacs file. When I try to edit a file through > emacsclient, I got the following message: > > $ emacsclient somefile > Waiting for Emacs... > -error Unknown&_command:&_/home/lirh/somefile > > What's wrong with this? How can I make it work? > That's probably the emacsclient from a previous version of emacs, not snapshot. Try emacsclient.emacs-snapshot somefile , instead. Erik