Emacs server problem

Emacs server problem

[Roger]

I have two Macs, both running OS X 10.6.3. On one of them I'm running
Gnu Emacs 22.2.1, downloaded (I believe - it was a while ago) from
emacswiki.org. On the other, I'm running Gnu Emacs 23.1, the latest
stable build for download.

On the 22.2.1 machine, I can start emacs server (M-x server-start) and
it works just fine. On the other machine, M-x server-start appears to
work fine, but on invoking emacs-client, I get "server not found -
have you started the server?" or something close to that.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

Re: Emacs server problem

[Gary]

Roger writes:
> I have two Macs, both running OS X 10.6.3. On one of them I'm running
> Gnu Emacs 22.2.1, downloaded (I believe - it was a while ago) from
> emacswiki.org. On the other, I'm running Gnu Emacs 23.1, the latest
> stable build for download.
>
> On the 22.2.1 machine, I can start emacs server (M-x server-start) and
> it works just fine. On the other machine, M-x server-start appears to
> work fine, but on invoking emacs-client, I get "server not found -
> have you started the server?" or something close to that.
>
> Am I missing something?

How are you starting emacsclient? From the command line, or from within
another program? (I ask because I had something similar which I traced
to an incorrect emacsclient command line when I tried to use it from
mutt.)

-- 
Gary

Re: Emacs server problem

[Roger]

On May 6, 3:39 pm, Gary <help-gnu-em...@garydjones.name> wrote:
> Roger writes:
> > I have two Macs, both running OS X 10.6.3. On one of them I'm running
> > Gnu Emacs 22.2.1, downloaded (I believe - it was a while ago) from
> > emacswiki.org. On the other, I'm running Gnu Emacs 23.1, the latest
> > stable build for download.
>
THe problem (I found the solution on another web site somewhere) was
that the emacsclient I was running was by default the one that ships
with OS X - which is the Emacs 22 emacsclient. Once I made sure
the new Emacs 23 emacsclient ran, everything was fine.

> > On the 22.2.1 machine, I can start emacs server (M-x server-start) and
> > it works just fine. On the other machine, M-x server-start appears to
> > work fine, but on invoking emacs-client, I get "server not found -
> > have you started the server?" or something close to that.
>
> > Am I missing something?
>
> How are you starting emacsclient? From the command line, or from within
> another program? (I ask because I had something similar which I traced
> to an incorrect emacsclient command line when I tried to use it from
> mutt.)
>
> --
> Gary