From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Bug Tracker <submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>,
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#1999: no emacs server variable `server-name'
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:56:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk58mfoe7.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0901221603r7efdcd53w3dc52a1a64b15679@mail.gmail.com>(Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:03:03 +0100")
>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-23 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-22 23:25 no emacs server variable `server-name' Harry Putnam
2009-01-23 0:03 ` bug#1995: " Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-23 0:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-23 5:00 ` bug#1995: marked as done (no emacs server variable `server-name') Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-01-23 7:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-01-23 8:24 ` no emacs server variable `server-name' Juanma Barranquero
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