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Re: Spurious error message?


From: Rusi
Subject: Re: Spurious error message?
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 19:57:24 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 8:16:01 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Rusi  writes:

> > $ emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs foo.txt
> > emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
> > To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
> > After printng which, it starts ok, editing the file!!
> > IOW I find the error message spurious.
> > Am I missing something?

> I too think this message doesn't make much sense in this context.  But
> you can presumably safely ignore it.

Sure its not bugging me too much.
Just thought it was a sufficiently glaring bug in the basic usage of
alternate-editor that I may be missing something.

Maybe I'll just file a bug report


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