From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Detecting if the Emacs server is running
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:14:05 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnio652d.aj3.nospam-abuse@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5.1300430901.25014.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 2011-03-18, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
> `--alternate-editor=COMMAND'
> Specify a command to run if `emacsclient' fails to contact Emacs.
> This is useful when running `emacsclient' in a script. For
> example, the following setting for the `EDITOR' environment
> variable will always give you an editor, even if no Emacs server is
> running:
>
> EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs +%d %s"
>
> As a special exception, if COMMAND is the empty string, then
> `emacsclient' starts Emacs in daemon mode and then tries
> connecting again.
Unfortunately, AFAIK, this piece of documentation is wrong. One is
forced to use much more baroque ways to do "the right thing". The bug
I suspect is emacsclient using some unportable switch (like
--daemon) for emacs, instead of using
-f server-start
on platforms which do not support --daemon. I needed to create a
batch file which does
emacs -f server-start %*
and give its name as the argument to --alternate-editor...
Ilya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-18 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-18 6:11 Detecting if the Emacs server is running PJ Weisberg
2011-03-18 6:47 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-03-18 7:38 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-18 9:59 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-18 7:18 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1300430901.25014.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-18 8:14 ` Ilya Zakharevich [this message]
[not found] <mailman.2.1300428697.25014.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-18 9:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-18 20:46 ` PJ Weisberg
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