bug#49195: Starting Emacs if required from emacsclient.desktop

[Peter Oliver]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > > More generally, I'm not sure we should even say this in the Emacs
> > > manual, as these features belong to the desktop, not to Emacs.
> >
> > This section of the manual already describes how to start Emacs from systemd, 
> > which isn’t part of Emacs either.
>
> systemd support code is in emacs.c, so that is (borderline) okay.
> What you describe is just normal desktop invocation, AFAIU.

It’s not normal to provide two different desktop entries for launching an 
application in slightly different ways.  However, I don’t object if we think 
that this addition to the manual is superfluous and decide to drop it.

> > +may use the @dfn{Emacs (Client)} menu entry to connect to an Emacs
>
> It is wrong to use @dfn here, since this is not new terminology you
> are introducing.  Better use @samp.
>
> > +server with @command{emacsclient}.  If the daemon is not already
> > +running, it will be started for you.
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Please try rephrasing this to avoid passive tense.

Done.

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Peter Oliver

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