Re: Splash screen and gnuserv

[LENNART BORGMAN]

From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:09 am
Subject: Re: Splash screen and gnuserv

> 
> > Nearly, but not quite. If the splash screen is active when 
> gnuserv 
> > recieves the command to open a new file then something strange 
> > happens. The new file is shown, but the mode line shows the 
> brackets 
> > (like [(Emacs-Lisp hs)] for recursive editing. There is a 'V' on 
> the 
> > modeline so Viper should be in vi mode.

> Have you tested it by starting Emacs, then after the splash screen 
> comes 
> up using gnuclient? Or are you only testing the case when 
> gnuclient 
> invokes Emacs because gnuserv was not running? The latter case 
> will not 
> be reproducable with emacsclient, since it does not start Emacs in 
> that 
> case. I wonder if the problem is only occuring when the gnuclient 
> command comes during init BEFORE the splash screen is shown, which 
> will 
> be difficult to reproduce with emacsclient.

I started Emacs first (but using gnuclient for this too without any file 
parameter) and called gnuclient (again but now with a file parameter) when 
Emacs shows the splash screen.