Re: bug in server-start

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:00, Nick Roberts <address@hidden> wrote:

> error: Server "server" is already running
>
> with a second emacs instance when (server-start) is in
> the .emacs file because, in this case server-process is nil and so
> the server process doesn't actually get deleted.

IIUC, you're saying that with

;;; .emacs
(server-start)
;;; end of .emacs

and running two emacs at once, the second one throws an error.

That's a feature. If you want to be sure that the most recent Emacs
instance is the current server, you can use

;;; .emacs
(server-force-delete)
(server-start)
;;; end of .emacs

If that's not what you meant, please post detailed instructions to
reproduce the problem.

TIA,

    Juanma