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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>, 37257@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval"
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:01:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7de06494-7d7f-26b4-f7e7-b061d80241e5@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87impv845y.fsf@gnus.org>

On 9/14/19 5:15 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I guess just reverting the change in question would fix this
> regressions, but this is a rather strange use case.  What's the point of
> specifying Emacs as the alternate editor?

Presumably, because someone mistakenly started emacsclient even though no Emacs 
server is running.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-14 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-01 16:21 bug#37257: 27.0.50; Campbell Barton
2019-09-05 21:52 ` bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval" Paul Eggert
2019-09-14 12:15   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-14 18:01     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-09-14 20:34       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-14 20:45         ` Cambell Barton
2019-09-15 12:13           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-15 17:52             ` Cambell Barton
2019-09-16 12:33               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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