From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 13:58:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87ejlzjv27.fsf@gmail.com> References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <4637A396.9000300@gmail.com> <46383B57.6050508@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178109872 24642 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 12:44:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:44:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 14:44:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjEC6-00077p-W0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 14:44:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjEIW-0004TI-02 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 08:51:08 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net iCDYKUru/cGhTCLzVV9yUwoAXQaZG+SOD38Ov5+9At4/RGUszQ X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ISPaKvw+6Lm6BEW0OnuWt+rQ5d4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147883 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 02 May 2007 08:47:39 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43486 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On 5/2/07, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > >> You know very well, Eli, that we have discussed if Emacs server should >> be started automatically when Emacs client is invoked. I have offered >> the code that does so, but you are one of those that did not want that >> code to be in Emacs at the moment. > > I'm obviously not Eli, but I think there were good reasons for not > wanting the code in Emacs at the present. For one, althought I like > the functionality, I think it could benefit from some more discussion; > also, I don't like the implementation. > >> I think it is one of the important features in the patched version that >> makes it quite a bit easier to get started using Emacs for new users. > > I don't think "quite a bit easier" is a fair description. We're > talking of the difficulty of starting Emacs as a server before using > emacsclient. Hardly rocket science. Is there a solid reason NOT to start the server automatically if someone starts a client? Clearly they want the server to be running. Why have something "easy enough to do" when you can have it "nothing to do"?