emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: emacsclient 22 and 23 incompatibility


From: David Reitter
Subject: Re: emacsclient 22 and 23 incompatibility
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:04:56 +0200

On Aug 1, 2009, at 12:55 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
It's a pity that this doesn't work out-of-the-box, given that not all
platforms use an install procedure that will update a centrally
installed emacsclient program along with the new Emacs main
application.

All platforms supported by Emacs do AFAICT.  If there are install
procedures outside of the control of the Emacs maintainers which don't
do the right thing, I don't see why it would be a good idea to bend over
backwards to support them.

Oh, I must have been missing out on something. Could you please explain how the Nextstep port does that?

According to what I know:
"make install" installs a .app in the nextstep folder, which is then supposed to be moved by the user wherever they want on their file system. The emacsclient binary is inside the .app and not copied to anywhere in PATH. That is why the existing 22 emacsclient binary (which is in PATH) stays in place and gets called by other applications such as "Skim" in order to communicate with Emacs, which fails.








reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]