Re: EmacsClient: using both --eval and --alternate-editor, possible?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>
>> Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I think there is a conflict between --eval and --alternate-editor
>>> option in EmacsClient.  If Emacs is not running and thus --eval fails,
>>> the EDITOR indicated with --alternate-editor is called instead.
>>> However, such EDITOR gets an ELisp expression, which it can't handle.
>>> Is there a way around this, other than wrapping EmacsClient into a
>>> script?
>>
>> Obviously, you need to patch this other editor to make it understand
>> elisp.  This is indeed an awful but that need immediate action.  Either
>> you integrate elisp in that alternate editor, or you rm it.  
>
> Or alternatively, and much more useful and helpful, if emacs uses the
> alternative editor then it doesnt pass the eval statement to that other
> editor since it knows the elisp eval statement is useless..

This is silly.  Obviously, the alternate editor is also an emacs.

For example:

/opt/local/bin/emacsclient --alternate-editor=/usr/bin/emacs -e 
'(emacs-version)'

if for some reason the X11 emacs provided by MacPorts is not available,
I fallback to the bare terminal emacs provided by Apple.


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