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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com>
Cc: 4888@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4888: 23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:41:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6mhc6nr.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5accf970911080622g1667aae7tc5a2bb7ec853c1a7@mail.gmail.com> (Peter Tury's message of "Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:22:16 +0100")

> 'As a special exception, if COMMAND is the empty string, then
> `emacsclient' starts Emacs in daemon mode and then tries
> connecting again.'

> This is not really true: as -a has a mandatory, non-empty COMMAND,
> it is impossible to call emacsclient this way from command line.

This is not true, it shoujld also work if you do

   emacsclient -a '' <blablabla>
or
   emacsclient --alternate-editor '' ...
or
   emacsclient --alternate-editor= ...

> On the same Info page an example is given this way:
> 'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs +%d %s"'
> I think it should be:
> 'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor=emacs +%d %s"'

Either way should work,


        Stefan





      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-08 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-08 14:22 bug#4888: 23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon Peter Tury
2009-11-08 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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