Re: Emacs making questions while starting in daemon mode

[Jan Djärv]

Chad Brown skrev 2010-07-06 18.27:
> On Jul 6, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>
> > C-g signal an error, which means that wathever is waiting for a return
> > value is aborted as well.
> >
> > The final outcome with that approach is that the user sees an emacs that
> > did not complete the initialization, which is similar to the effects of a
> > faulty .emacs.
>
> There are probably roughly as many annoying corner cases in the `bull
> ahead' strategy as there are in the `wait for input' strategy.  Rather than
> trying to weigh and balance exceptional cases, why don't we look into
> having emacs open a window to ask those questions (or at least ask about
> bull-ahead-or-hang) if it's run --daemon?  The existing code used if you
> try to quit emacs using a mouse and the menu-bar (assuming a customized
> confirm-kill-emacs) ought to be a usable guide.

You can start emacs --daemon in a non-GUI environment and then connect to it 
from a GUI or non-GUI environment.  So opening a window may not be possible 
for the --daemon instance.

It may be hard, but if emacs is started with --daemon, it could perhaps delay 
running .emacs until the first connection to it is made?  That way 
errors/questions can be shown to the first client.

        Jan D.