emacsclient problem

emacsclient problem

[Ruohao Li]

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?

Re: emacsclient problem

[Erik Iverson]

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

Re: emacsclient problem

[Ruohao Li]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 01:14 -0600, Erik Iverson wrote:
> 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
Yes, that's the problem, it now works, thank you.

Re: emacsclient problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.11.2008 um 05:37 schrieb Ruohao Li:

> $ emacsclient somefile
> Waiting for Emacs...
> -error Unknown&_command:&_/home/lirh/somefile
>
> What's wrong with this? How can I make it work?

Could be you have more than one emacsclient programme in your search  
PATH and the wrong one is found ...

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   Pete

Who the fsck is "General Failure," and why is he reading my disk?

emacsclient problem

[Jason Mader]

In Emacs 23.2 and 23.1, on OS X, when I use emacsclient -t, under a
certain condition when I have a region in a buffer made with the
mouse, the buffer in emacsclient is frozen until I click the mouse in
the other buffer with the region (sometimes C-g will work too).

It's pretty easy to repeat.  Highlight a region with the mouse, switch
to a terminal running emacsclient -t and no input will have an affect,
even C-g.  It's not a problem if the region was created by setting a
mark and moving the point.

Is this a problem with Emacs, or is there something I can do when
emacsclient starts to avoid the problem if I have created a region
with the mouse thinking I'll be able to yank it into the new
emacsclient buffer?

Re: emacsclient problem

[Stefan Monnier]

> It's pretty easy to repeat.  Highlight a region with the mouse, switch
> to a terminal running emacsclient -t and no input will have an affect,
> even C-g.  It's not a problem if the region was created by setting a
> mark and moving the point.

It's a problem in the implementation of the feature related to the
variable mouse-region-delete-keys.
This implementation has various other similar annoying side-effects :-(
Hopefully, we'll get that fixed in Emacs-24.


        Stefan