From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spurious error message? Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:08:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87egvlqniw.fsf@gmail.com> References: <3e285484-611a-4329-80c9-68baab3c782a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410246559 25983 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2014 07:09:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 07:09:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 09 09:09:12 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRFY5-0004A2-Pc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:09:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRFY5-0002C3-Ag for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRFXk-0002Bs-Mg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRFXa-00028R-FN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35459) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XRFXa-00028G-99 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XRFXY-0003uD-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:08:36 +0200 Original-Received: from g231106220.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.106.220]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:08:36 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231106220.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:08:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231106220.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fgf+XvxiGUGfG/sQ1o82x4ebnwI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99721 Archived-At: Rusi writes: > On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:16:01 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Heerdegen wrote: >> Rusi writes: > >> > $ emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs foo.txt >> > emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? >> > To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start". >> > After printng which, it starts ok, editing the file!! >> > IOW I find the error message spurious. >> > Am I missing something? > >> I too think this message doesn't make much sense in this context. But >> you can presumably safely ignore it. > > Sure its not bugging me too much. > Just thought it was a sufficiently glaring bug in the basic usage of > alternate-editor that I may be missing something. > > Maybe I'll just file a bug report When you are on it, maybe you could mention too that the error message when starting a server while a server with the same name is already running is to harsh IMO. Its like calling (require 'foo) and getting "ERROR: foo already loaded, couldn't require foo" although everything is fine actually ... A softer informative message like "Server <> already running, no restart required" would be less irritating. -- cheers, Thorsten