Error in emacsclient operation

Error in emacsclient operation

[Bostjan Vilfan]

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I made the following experiment: Emacs had two buffers, <file 1> and <file 2>,
and I entered the following text on the command line,

emacsclient -e <RET>
(kill-buffer (string [file 1])) <RET>
(kill-buffer (string [file 2])) <RET>
<CTRL-Z>

where [file 1] and [file 2] are the string argument forms of <file 1> and
<file 2>, resp. The result was that only the first buffer was killed.

Since Emacs version 21.3 does not have a built in server, I used the program
gnuserv, and I checked the operation of the corresponding gnuclientw program
with Emacs v. 21.3 in the identical situation. I entered the following text:

gnuclientw -e (kill-buffer (string [file 1])) (kill-buffer (string [file 2]))
<RET>

and the result was as expected, i.e., both buffers got killed. Therefore, I
think that emacsclient has a bug.

In addition, my suggestion is that gnuclient be equipped with a command line
option to accept arguments as a continuation of the command line (i.e., 
similarly to gnuclientw).

Regards,
BV bostjanv@alum.mit.edu




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Re: Error in emacsclient operation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 23:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bostjan Vilfan <bvilf@yahoo.com>
> 
> I made the following experiment: Emacs had two buffers, <file 1> and <file 2>,
> and I entered the following text on the command line,
> 
> emacsclient -e <RET>
> (kill-buffer (string [file 1])) <RET>
> (kill-buffer (string [file 2])) <RET>
> <CTRL-Z>
> 
> where [file 1] and [file 2] are the string argument forms of <file 1> and
> <file 2>, resp. The result was that only the first buffer was killed.

Thank you for your report.

Try this command, it works for me:

  emacsclient -e "(kill-buffer \"file 1\")" "(kill-buffer \"file 2\")"

> Since Emacs version 21.3 does not have a built in server, I used the program
> gnuserv, and I checked the operation of the corresponding gnuclientw program
> with Emacs v. 21.3 in the identical situation. I entered the following text:
> 
> gnuclientw -e (kill-buffer (string [file 1])) (kill-buffer (string [file 2]))
> <RET>
> 
> and the result was as expected, i.e., both buffers got killed. Therefore, I
> think that emacsclient has a bug.

Given the above command I suggested, do you still think emacsclient
has a bug?  The fact that gnuclientw works differently is not a proof,
since emacsclient's UI does not mimic that of gnuclientw's.