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bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument


From: Ken Brown
Subject: bug#27511: 26.0.50; emacsclient requires file argument
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:11:19 -0400
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On 6/29/2017 8:32 AM, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net wrote> James Nguyen <jamesn@fastmail.com> writes:

That snip you sent doesn’t work the way I want. It just opens the Gui
Emacs up without opening a new scratch buffer.

Oh you want a *new* scratch buffer?  As in, you end up with multiple
scratch buffers if you run emacsclient several times?

At this point, my takeaway is that we think this is 1. not a bug and
2. unlikely to have the default change (emacsclient behaving similarly
in spirit to emacs)

I will just have to write a bash function that wraps emacsclient and
check for the file arg (or lackof) myself.

Yeah, changing the defaults is tricky because you have to get a lot of
people to agree on what the new default should be.  Although it seems to
me that the current default of just printing an error message is not
especially useful for anyone...

The purpose of emacsclient is to contact an emacs server and give it some action to perform (visit a file, open a new frame, evaluate some lisp, ...). If you run emacsclient with no arguments, you're not specifying any action. I can think of two possibilities for what emacsclient should do in that case: (a) Silently do nothing. (b) Print an error message. I would find it very surprising if emacsclient were to tell the server to create a new buffer when I've specified no action.

Ken






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