Re: Pretest

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 11/20/06, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:

> Can't it do that now, with --alternate-editor and emacsclientw.exe on Windows?

Most, except...

> The only thing left is fixing the edge case where "emacsclient
> --alternate-editor emacs" exits immediately, which causes problems for
> programs that use emacsclient as an external editor.

...this.

> AFAICT gnuclient also has this same problem.

There are quite a few gnuclient versions out there. The one from
Lennart's page does not present this problem.

> IMHO this should wait until after release,
> because there are significant changes needed, see David Kastrup's most
> recent posts.

In all truth, I took just a cursory look on David's "fix", but it
seemed a bit of handwaving to me, particularly (as Stefan as already
said) on the "detach" part, which is the biggest difficulty in
Lennart's work so far. So: patches welcome.

                   /L/e/k/t/u