From: "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Problem quoting expression to be eval'ed by emacsclient
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:37:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mwlxplvb.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4580.1382583151.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to evaluate an expression via `emacsclient' (from a Zsh shell),
>>>>> for example:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ emacsclient -e "(message \"hello\")"
>>
>> The above tests I made are from a Cygwin Zsh session.
>
> And emacsclient was a Cygwin build or a native build? If the latter, your
> problems could be due to this mix. (Your example works for me from cmd and
> even from MSYS Bash.)
That does indeed makes a difference:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ emacsclient -e "(message \"hello\")"
*ERROR*: End of file during parsing
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ /usr/bin/emacsclient -e "(message \"hello\")"
/usr/bin/emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
"hello"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
However, that still leaves me with the following problem:
How can I work in a correct shell on Windows (read: not `cmd.exe'), and
edit in my graphical Emacs w32?
More generally, as:
- it happens I switch between GNU Emacs 23/24 versions (for test purpose, in
case of problem)
- an Emacs server must be contacted by an `emacsclient' of the same release
- Cygwin (/usr/bin) is second in my PATH, after ~/bin
I currently have a small `~/bin/emacsclient' script (one-liner) which allows me
to set the full path to the right `emacsclient' without having to fiddle with
the PATH environment variable (as that requires me to quit my shell, and start
a new one):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
"C:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-trunk/bin/emacsclient" $@
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
This is a hack. Indeed, I'd like to be able to launch whichever Emacs version
(clicking on one of the many versions I have on my Windows desktop), and that
launching `emacsclient' in the shell would work in all contexts.
Am I missing a better way to handle this?
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-25 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 8:33 Problem quoting expression to be eval'ed by emacsclient Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-23 8:52 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-10-23 14:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2013-10-23 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4544.1382542407.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-23 21:56 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-24 2:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4580.1382583151.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-25 12:37 ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2013-10-25 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4697.1382708854.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-30 9:59 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-30 11:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4965.1383133220.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-07 15:37 ` Sebastien Vauban
[not found] ` <mailman.4986.1383159329.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-07 15:44 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-10-23 10:14 ` Andreas Röhler
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