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bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument
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James Nguyen |
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bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:06:00 -0700 |
>> What does it mean to connect to a server without asking the server to do
>> something? Does DWIM suggest an obvious guess? One possible guess would be
>> that you forgot to specify a file, in which case an error message (or at
>> least a query) is precisely the right thing. Maybe there are other possible
>> guesses, but I personally wouldn't expect emacsclient to guess that I want
>> the server to do something involving the scratch buffer.
`Anything` but failing and throwing an error message would be a 'sane default'
(in my opinion).
>> vim is not a client connecting to a server. A better analogy would be a
>> mail client/server pair. What would you expect a mail client to do if you
>> ask it to connect to an outgoing mail server but you don't specify a message
>> to send? I would expect either (a) the client should do nothing or (b) the
>> client should issue an error message.
Sure, a mail client/server is a good analogy. If I click 'mail app' in OSX, it
opens up to a list of my emails/inbox (and even queries for mail!) despite
myself not micromanaging that fact.
>> Noam suggested that you should use 'emacsclient -c' or 'emacsclient -t',
>> neither of which does nothing; they each create a new frame. AFAIU, he
>> didn't suggest that emacsclient should try to guess which of these you want
>> if you don't specify either.
This was what I was referring to.
emacsclient --eval '(select-frame-set-input-focus (car (frame-list)))'
>> Anyway, it might be time for us to agree to disagree.
Agreed.
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, (continued)
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, Ken Brown, 2017/06/28
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, James Nguyen, 2017/06/28
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, Noam Postavsky, 2017/06/28
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, James Nguyen, 2017/06/28
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, npostavs, 2017/06/28
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, James Nguyen, 2017/06/28
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, npostavs, 2017/06/29
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, Ken Brown, 2017/06/29
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, James Nguyen, 2017/06/29
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument, Ken Brown, 2017/06/29
- bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument,
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