From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:43:44 +0200 Message-ID: <85br4bnslb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <42D75F2C.3040303@student.lu.se> <42F3FAE0.206@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123333159 2068 80.91.229.2 (6 Aug 2005 12:59:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 06 14:59:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1OFv-0001Xl-Hv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:58:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1OIp-0001w0-IO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 09:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E1OGL-0001Zx-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:58:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E1OGG-0001Vk-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1OGE-0001RC-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E1OFj-0003cM-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E1O0p-0004TU-Ml; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 8D5C41D46076; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 14:43:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 6 Aug 2005 13:20:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41592 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41592 Juanma Barranquero writes: > On 8/6/05, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> I'd say, if no one posts any practical comments in a week or so, go >> ahead and commit the changes. After all, the Emacs development rules >> do not mandate any peer review at all. > > You're right. > > I would've liked some comments, though, for two reasons: > > - It's an incompatible change, if small: --socket-name does not > exist, and you *must* use either the EMACS_SERVER_FILE environment > variable or the --server-file argument to emacsclient; otherwise > emacsclient will refuse to work. Uh what? Isn't there a default file name? > - I've been vocal in stressing that I think our freeze is not very > cold at all. So I'd like someone with a more objective POV to decide > whether this (making emacsclient/server work on Windows and from > remote machines) is a bug fix or a new feature. It is a new feature fixing a bug. > Of course I'd like to include it now, but I won't complain if the > decision goes to shelving it for the moment being. In my opinion it is one thing worth the hassle of ironing out, though it is definitely new. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum