From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Spurious error message?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 23:42:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6099564-74ab-4815-9700-7019e4aa1efc@googlegroups.com> (raw)
emacsclient is supposed to 'jump into' an already emacs.
What if there is no emacs running? I get:
$ emacsclient foo.txt
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor. Please use:
--socket-name
--server-file (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
--alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
Ok so far so good. So I use the --alternate-editor
$ 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?
next reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-08 6:42 Rusi [this message]
2014-09-09 2:46 ` Spurious error message? Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.8494.1410230804.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-09 2:57 ` Rusi
2014-09-09 4:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-09 7:08 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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