bug#549: emacsclient or emacsclientw not waiting in Windows

bug#549: emacsclient or emacsclientw not waiting in Windows

[Stefan Monnier]

reassign 549 emacs,w32
thanks

> I have a Windows Vista SP1, and when using emacsclient or emacsclientw, they

IIRC `emacsclientw' is not part of Emacs, but only of some derived
packages (EmacsW32, maybe?).  So maybe the problem is in those packages.

AFAIK `emacsclient' does wait for the editing to be done before
returning, so please try and reproduce your problem with a vanilla Emacs
(e.g. the one you can download from
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/).


        Stefan

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bug#549: emacsclient or emacsclientw not waiting in Windows

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> reassign 549 emacs,w32
> thanks
> 
>> I have a Windows Vista SP1, and when using emacsclient or emacsclientw, they
> 
> IIRC `emacsclientw' is not part of Emacs, but only of some derived
> packages (EmacsW32, maybe?).  So maybe the problem is in those packages.

emacsclientw is now also part of Emacs on w32. (Though the one that 
comes with Emacs+EmacsW32 is a bit different.)

> AFAIK `emacsclient' does wait for the editing to be done before
> returning, so please try and reproduce your problem with a vanilla Emacs
> (e.g. the one you can download from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/).


Yes, that is the right thing to do whenever reporting a problem. 
(However the versions of emacsclient/w that comes with Emacs+EmacsW32 
also waits, so the problem is probably somewhere else.)

bug#549: emacsclient or emacsclientw not waiting in Windows

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Vesa Suontama wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Windows Vista SP1, and when using emacsclient or emacsclientw, 
> they always return immediately with return value 1, and do not wait 
> making it useless as EDITOR for command line utilities which should wait.
> 
> I use the emacsclient from cmd.exe and not from cygwin. I also started 
> emacs with –q, and started server manually after that, so no startup 
> file should be causing this.
> 
> Is this a known issue?
> 
> Otherwise I love emacs :)
> 
> Vesa
> 
> In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6001)
> 
>  of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE
> 
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.0.6001


I do not have Emacs 22 here. However I just tested with CVS Emacs 23, 
both unpatched and the patched version that comes with Emacs+EmacsW32. I 
saw no problem, both emacsclient and emacsclientw waited as expected.

Some notes:

- Please use -Q (uppercase), not -q (lowercase). -q will still run 
site-start.el

- If you test from a console window (running cmd.exe) then please note 
that emacsclientw can not make cmd.exe wait for it. I can't remember the 
technical terms for it but w here stands for "window, GUI". Program 
linked as GUI applications do not use a console window (by default). 
They can not write to a console and if started from a console the 
console will not wait for them.

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