emacsclient.emacs23 -a "" should start the daemon using emacs23, not emacs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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emacs23 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: emacs23
Emacs 23 and later have the neat feature of running as a daemon for emacsclient to connect to. Furthermore, emacsclient will automatically start a new daemon and then connect to it if one is not already running in the background, if you set the alternative editor to the empty string. That is, if you run emacsclient -a "" -c, emacsclient will either connect to an existing daemon or start a new one and connect to it. It starts the new one by running "emacs --daemon".
However, when I do emacsclient.emacs23 -a "" -c, instead of running "emacs --daemon", it should run "emacs23 --daemon".
This makes a difference for the purposes of window matching in programs like Docky.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 27 12:24:36 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: emacs23-bin-common 23.1+1-4ubuntu3.1
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: emacs23
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-18-generic x86_64
Changed in emacs23 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Expired → Incomplete |
Ubuntu Karmic is end of life. Please try again using a newer version of Ubuntu. If it still fails, could you explain the scenario where this is important? "emacs23" points to /etc/alternativ es/emacs so you can configure yourself which executable it will start.