Re: Daemon mode wishlist

[Romain Francoise]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:

> Doesn't --eval '(progn (setq server-name "foo") (server-start))' work?

Ah, I hadn't thought of that.  The server gets restarted, of course,
but yes it works.  Thanks.

> My plan is to change --daemon syntax to be --daemon[=NAME[:PORT]]
> Then (daemonp) would return (NAME . PORT)
> and change server-start to take NAME and PORT as optional arguments.

And PORT could be t if you want Emacs to start a TCP server on a
random port as is the default now?

> Do you want to help implementing/documenting and more importantly
> getting this approved?

The first step is probably to get this approved. :)