From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87slggjtbb.fsf@furball.mit.edu> <455F9024.8080000@student.lu.se> <17759.43936.82301.353794@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85irhbg6zx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17760.11257.78362.216206@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85wt5reo3b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17760.17309.553008.718144@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <85slgfcy5v.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <45606E21.9030000@student.lu.se> <85lkm7ctsb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4560ACD0.6040709@student.lu.se> <85ac2nb5ju.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163985365 12900 80.91.229.2 (20 Nov 2006 01:16:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Nick Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 20 02:16:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlxlS-000517-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:16:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlxlR-0001Jh-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlxlG-0001JR-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlxlE-0001IQ-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlxlE-0001IM-GN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GlxlD-0005Do-MX; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.143.67]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20061120011546.JXFZ1811.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F09C38282; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:46 -0500 (EST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85ac2nb5ju.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun\, 19 Nov 2006 20\:27\:33 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62516 Archived-At: > Again: what is the problem with > emacsclient -a 'emacs --eval (server-start)' > ? Depends what you intend this to solve. What they want is to be able to say "emacsclient " and it should always work the same way, whether Emacs was already started or not. Your above invocation has no , so it doesn't directly solve their problem. If you intended something like emacsclient -a 'emacs --eval (server-start)' then it suffers from the problem that this command will only exit after the Emacs server exits, rather than after you finish editing . So instead they intend to do something like emacsclient -a 'emacs --eval (server-start) & emacsclient' but then they need to deal with the fact that the server is only accessible after some amount of time, so the emacsclient after the "&" needs to be able to deal with temporary connection failures. Stefan