Re: with-editor seems like a bug fix

[Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Hi Eli,
>
>>> What if we install a simplified version in vanilla Emacs? That is
>>>
>>> - Use always emacsclient, locally or remote
>>> - Check for emacsclient only at the well know places
>>> - Recommend to use with-editor from ELPA if this fails
>>
>> I'd need to see the patch to understand what that means in practice.
>
> If Jonas agrees this approach, I could try to puzzle something together.

Sounds good to me in principal.

I am unsure whether you plan to add a stripped-down with-editor.el to
Emacs or implement the mentioned functionality in existing libraries.
The latter seems more reasonable to me (and I'm guessing that's what
you had in mind).

Please also consider these features:

- Add `server-window-alist'.  This would allow both packages and users
  to specify that certain buffers should be displayed differently from
  the default specified by `server-window'.

- Allow running `server-start' in multiple emacs instances, without
  the user/package who calls that, having figure out if another instance
  is already using the same name.  I.e., something to replace:

    (unless (process-live-p server-process)
      (when (server-running-p server-name)
        (setq server-name (format "server%s" (emacs-pid)))
        (when (server-running-p server-name)
          (server-force-delete server-name)))
      (server-start))

By the way, I really liked you summary of what with-editor.el does and
why.

Cheers,
Jonas