Re: update of emacsclient.1

[Emilio Lopes]

I wrote:

> enclosed is a patch updating the man page of Emacsclient.  I hope
> the changes are appropriate. [...]

After collecting suggestions from others, I came up with the following
changes.  They already include the patch I sent before.

2005-08-17  Emilio C. Lopes  <address@hidden>

        * emacsclient.1 (DESCRIPTION): reflect inclusion in the Emacs
        distribution. Made the role of EDITOR clearer.
        (OPTIONS): documented `-s', `-V' and `-h' as well as their long
        name counterparts.
        (BUGS): removed since its contents doesn't
        apply anymore.
  
diff -rN -c old-emacs-darcs.eclig/etc/emacsclient.1 
new-emacs-darcs.eclig/etc/emacsclient.1
*** old-emacs-darcs.eclig/etc/emacsclient.1     Wed Aug 17 18:54:07 2005
--- new-emacs-darcs.eclig/etc/emacsclient.1     Wed Aug 17 18:51:17 2005
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*** 9,29 ****
  .SH "DESCRIPTION"
  This manual page documents briefly the
  .BR emacsclient
! command.
! This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
! because the original program does not have a manual page.
! Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
  .PP
  .B emacsclient 
! works in conjunction with the built-in server of Emacs.
  .PP
! You typically do not call 
  .B emacsclient
! directly.  Instead, you set the environment variable EDITOR
! to 
! .B emacsclient
! and let programs like 'vipw' or 'bug' or anything run
! it for you, which will use an existing Emacs to visit the file.
  
  For
  .B emacsclient 
--- 9,31 ----
  .SH "DESCRIPTION"
  This manual page documents briefly the
  .BR emacsclient
! command.  Full documentation is available in the GNU Info format; see
! below.
! This manual page was originally written for the Debian GNU/Linux
! distribution, but is not specific to that system.
  .PP
  .B emacsclient 
! works in conjunction with the built-in Emacs server.
  .PP
! You can either call
  .B emacsclient
! directly or let other programs run it for you when necessary.  On
! GNU/Linux and Unix systems many programs consult the environment
! variable EDITOR (sometimes also VISUAL) to obtain the command used for
! editing.  Thus, setting this environment variable to 'emacsclient'
! will allow these programs to use an already running Emacs for editing.
! Other operating systems might have their own methods for defining the
! default editor.
  
  For
  .B emacsclient 
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*** 54,79 ****
  do not visit files but instead evaluate the arguments as Emacs
  Lisp expressions.
  .TP
  .B \-a, \-\-alternate-editor=EDITOR
  if the Emacs server is not running, run the specified editor instead.
  This can also be specified via the `ALTERNATE_EDITOR' environment variable.
  .TP
  .B \-d, \-\-display=DISPLAY
  tell the server to display the files on the given display.
  .SH "SEE ALSO"
  The program is documented fully in
  .IR "Using Emacs as a Server"
  available via the Info system.
- .SH BUGS
- If there is no running Emacs server, 
- .B emacsclient 
- cannot launch one. I use a small Perl script instead of raw 
- .B emacsclient
- to do it (it works only with systems which have BSD sockets, which is fine
- for Debian GNU/Linux).
  .SH AUTHOR
! This manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer <address@hidden>,
! for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
  .SH COPYING
  This manual page is in the public domain.
  
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  do not visit files but instead evaluate the arguments as Emacs
  Lisp expressions.
  .TP
+ .B \-s, \-\-socket-name=FILENAME
+ Use socket named FILENAME for communication.
+ .TP
  .B \-a, \-\-alternate-editor=EDITOR
  if the Emacs server is not running, run the specified editor instead.
  This can also be specified via the `ALTERNATE_EDITOR' environment variable.
  .TP
  .B \-d, \-\-display=DISPLAY
  tell the server to display the files on the given display.
+ .TP
+ .B \-V, \-\-version
+ print version information and exit
+ .TP
+ .B \-h, \-\-help
+ print this usage information message and exit
  .SH "SEE ALSO"
  The program is documented fully in
  .IR "Using Emacs as a Server"
  available via the Info system.
  .SH AUTHOR
! This manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer <address@hidden>
! for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
  .SH COPYING
  This manual page is in the public domain.