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bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval"
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval" |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 22:34:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 9/14/19 5:15 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> I guess just reverting the change in question would fix this
>> regressions, but this is a rather strange use case. What's the point of
>> specifying Emacs as the alternate editor?
>
> Presumably, because someone mistakenly started emacsclient even though
> no Emacs server is running.
Oh, right. Yes, that seems like a useful use case.
Hm, I guess we should just revert the patch -- I don't see any obvious
way to determine whether --alternate-editor is Emacs (which will then
understand the rest of the parameters) or something else (which will
then not). So leaving it the way it was is best.
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- bug#37257: 27.0.50;, Campbell Barton, 2019/09/01
- bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval", Paul Eggert, 2019/09/05
- bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/14
- bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval", Paul Eggert, 2019/09/14
- bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval",
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval", Cambell Barton, 2019/09/14
- bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/15
- bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval", Cambell Barton, 2019/09/15
- bug#37257: failure of emacsclient ... --alternate-editor="emacs --eval", Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/16