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"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> The reason is that with the patched version you do not have to
>>> start Emacs server in your .emacs, it is started automatically by
>>> the first invocation of emacsclient.
>>
>> So not only is your Emacs patched and behaves differently, it also
>> teaches users habits that will prevent them from using the same .emacs
>> on other systems?  I find this disturbing.
>
>
> You know very well, Eli, that we have discussed if Emacs server should
> be started automatically when Emacs client is invoked. I have offered

I would vote for this.

The current way it works seems to make little sense. If someone is
running the client then clearly they want the server. If there is no
server, start it. Makes perfect sense.