no emacs server variable `server-name'

no emacs server variable `server-name'

[Harry Putnam]

I've only been using emacsclient a short while.
I thought maybe I'd like to try having two servers.  One with gnus
running and another for some perl scripting I'm working on.

Reading parts of the documentation I see:
(info "(emacs)Emacs Server")
     You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving
  each one a unique "server name", using the variable `server-name'.
  For example, `M-x set-variable <RET> server-name <RET> foo <RET>'
  sets the server name to `foo'.  The `emacsclient' program can
  specify a server by name, using the `-s' option (*note emacsclient
  Options::).
  
In a recent cvs of emacs-23  

bug#1995: no emacs server variable `server-name'

[Juanma Barranquero]

Package: emacs
Version: 23.0.60

> Reading parts of the documentation I see:
> (info "(emacs)Emacs Server")
>     You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving
>  each one a unique "server name", using the variable `server-name'.
>  For example, `M-x set-variable <RET> server-name <RET> foo <RET>'
>  sets the server name to `foo'.  The `emacsclient' program can
>  specify a server by name, using the `-s' option (*note emacsclient
>  Options::).

There are several ways to set it (with --daemon=myname, or --eval, or
M-: (setq ...)), but you're right: the documentation states that it is
settable with set-variable, and it is not. At the very least it should
be

  (defvar server-name "server"
     "*Name of the server process.")
  (put 'server-name 'variable-interactive "M")

if not a defcustom.

    Juanma

Re: no emacs server variable `server-name'

[Juanma Barranquero]

Package: emacs
Version: 23.0.60

> Reading parts of the documentation I see:
> (info "(emacs)Emacs Server")
>     You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving
>  each one a unique "server name", using the variable `server-name'.
>  For example, `M-x set-variable <RET> server-name <RET> foo <RET>'
>  sets the server name to `foo'.  The `emacsclient' program can
>  specify a server by name, using the `-s' option (*note emacsclient
>  Options::).

There are several ways to set it (with --daemon=myname, or --eval, or
M-: (setq ...)), but you're right: the documentation states that it is
settable with set-variable, and it is not. At the very least it should
be

  (defvar server-name "server"
     "*Name of the server process.")
  (put 'server-name 'variable-interactive "M")

if not a defcustom.

    Juanma

bug#1995: marked as done (no emacs server variable `server-name')

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Emacs Bug Tracker <submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
Subject: Re: no emacs server variable `server-name'
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:03:03 +0100
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b0901221603r7efdcd53w3dc52a1a64b15679@mail.gmail.com>

Package: emacs
Version: 23.0.60

> Reading parts of the documentation I see:
> (info "(emacs)Emacs Server")
>     You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving
>  each one a unique "server name", using the variable `server-name'.
>  For example, `M-x set-variable <RET> server-name <RET> foo <RET>'
>  sets the server name to `foo'.  The `emacsclient' program can
>  specify a server by name, using the `-s' option (*note emacsclient
>  Options::).

There are several ways to set it (with --daemon=myname, or --eval, or
M-: (setq ...)), but you're right: the documentation states that it is
settable with set-variable, and it is not. At the very least it should
be

  (defvar server-name "server"
     "*Name of the server process.")
  (put 'server-name 'variable-interactive "M")

if not a defcustom.

    Juanma



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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>, 1995-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: no emacs server variable `server-name'
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:54:13 -0500
Message-ID: <87ab9ilj0q.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

> you're right: the documentation states that it is
> settable with set-variable, and it is not. At the very least it should
> be
>
>   (defvar server-name "server"
>      "*Name of the server process.")
>   (put 'server-name 'variable-interactive "M")
>
> if not a defcustom.

I don't see any problem with making server-name a defcustom, so I went
ahead and did that.

bug#1999: no emacs server variable `server-name'

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Reading parts of the documentation I see:
>> (info "(emacs)Emacs Server")
>> You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving
>> each one a unique "server name", using the variable `server-name'.
>> For example, `M-x set-variable <RET> server-name <RET> foo <RET>'
>> sets the server name to `foo'.  The `emacsclient' program can
>> specify a server by name, using the `-s' option (*note emacsclient
>> Options::).

> There are several ways to set it (with --daemon=myname, or --eval, or
> M-: (setq ...)), but you're right: the documentation states that it is
> settable with set-variable, and it is not. At the very least it should
> be

>   (defvar server-name "server"
>      "*Name of the server process.")

We could add a * indeed, although I'm not convinced it's very useful to
set it interactively.

>   (put 'server-name 'variable-interactive "M")

No idea what this does.

> if not a defcustom.

That's another option.


        Stefan

Re: no emacs server variable `server-name'

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:56, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>>   (put 'server-name 'variable-interactive "M")
>
> No idea what this does.

From `set-variable':

  If variable has a `variable-interactive' property, that is used as if
  it were the arg to `interactive' (which see) to interactively read value.

so it would've been better "MIntroduce the server name: " or some such.

> That's another option.

Even better, of course.

    Juanma