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Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practic
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Juanma Barranquero |
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Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8) |
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Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:51:55 +0200 |
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Ludwig, Mark <ludwig.mark@siemens.com> wrote:
> I don't agree. Why is it useful to make the user click OK (the only
> available button) /before/ launching the alternate editor?
Because if we don't say anything, the user won't be aware that there's
a problem. In fact, if we didn't say anything, we would not be having
this conversation in the first place. That message tells the user that
Emacs exited unexpectedly. I agree that it is not useful for *your*
use case, but that does not mean that it is not generally useful. I,
for once, much prefer getting these error messages than not getting
them (so I can try and find what's going wrong behind my back).
> Let's say you're correct that there is a running Emacs that's not
> responding, so the dialog information is reporting an "interesting"
> situation. I claim that it /still/ doesn't matter, because
> emacsclientw has made its only attempt to connect to the
> supposedly-running server (which failed) and all the user can do is
> click OK, after which emacsclientw will launch the alternate editor
> (if any). If there were a "Retry" button, that would be /very/different.
I didn't say that Emacs is not responding, I said that Emacs is not
responding to server requests. Perhaps you inadvertedly deactivated
the server mode, and jus M-x server-mode <RET> will activate it again
without having to exit and reload Emacs. If that seems far-fetched to
you, well, it's happened to me more times that I could count.
J
- Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/19
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Richard Copley, 2013/06/26
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/26
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/26
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/26
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8),
Juanma Barranquero <=
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/27
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Juanma Barranquero, 2013/06/27
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- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Jason Rumney, 2013/06/28
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Richard Copley, 2013/06/28
- Re: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Richard Copley, 2013/06/28
- RE: Dialog from emacsclientw.exe must be dismissed (was RE: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8), Ludwig, Mark, 2013/06/28