From: James Nguyen <jamesn@fastmail.com>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>, 27511@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:22:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85C06120-9160-4BC3-8B34-F1A48CFD0057@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5db096c1-40c7-6841-f451-a4e8e682484d@cornell.edu>
At the very least, I understand how to use emacsclient (e.g. to connect to a running emacs server).
I am just wondering if it makes sense to give an error message instead of `falling back` the way ‘emacs’ does. (scratch buffer or title screen (though a title screen might not make sense assuming the server/emacs instance was already started)).
I’ve also been told emacsclient used to be able to handle the ‘no file arguments’ case, although I can’t confirm if this is true or not.
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/45mtdz/can_someone_explain_why_emacsclient_requires_a/
Shows 1 or 2 users being able to use emacsclient without passing a file argument.
> On Jun 28, 2017, at 10:03 AM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> On 6/28/2017 11:00 AM, James Nguyen wrote:
>> "Emacs simply displays those files; otherwise, it displays a buffer named *scratch*, which can be used to evaluate Emacs Lisp expressions interactively."
>> I think it’s preferable it behaves just like regular ‘emacs’ does, opening a *scratch* buffer as a fallback.
>
> I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of emacsclient:
>
> $ emacsclient --help
> Usage: emacsclient [OPTIONS] FILE...
> Tell the Emacs server to visit the specified files.
>
>
> See https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html#Emacs-Server for typical use cases.
>
> Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-28 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-28 2:03 bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument James Nguyen
2017-06-28 14:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-28 15:00 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-28 17:03 ` Ken Brown
2017-06-28 17:22 ` James Nguyen [this message]
2017-06-28 17:35 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-06-28 23:49 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29 1:13 ` npostavs
2017-06-29 3:35 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29 12:32 ` npostavs
2017-06-29 14:11 ` Ken Brown
2017-06-29 16:48 ` James Nguyen
2017-06-29 18:11 ` Ken Brown
2017-06-30 1:06 ` James Nguyen
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