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bug#4888: 23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#4888: 23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:41:33 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> 'As a special exception, if COMMAND is the empty string, then
> `emacsclient' starts Emacs in daemon mode and then tries
> connecting again.'

> This is not really true: as -a has a mandatory, non-empty COMMAND,
> it is impossible to call emacsclient this way from command line.

This is not true, it shoujld also work if you do

   emacsclient -a '' <blablabla>
or
   emacsclient --alternate-editor '' ...
or
   emacsclient --alternate-editor= ...

> On the same Info page an example is given this way:
> 'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs +%d %s"'
> I think it should be:
> 'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor=emacs +%d %s"'

Either way should work,


        Stefan





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