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bug#2864: running emacsclient uninstalled
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#2864: running emacsclient uninstalled |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 08:15:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> There are a few problems with emacsclient in CVS, first one is that
> one cannot run emacsclient from the build directory, you can do this
> with emacs just fine. But emacsclien gets confused as to where things
> are, and you must do a `make install' to be able to use emacsclient
> properly.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)
This has been fixed in the decade since this was reported.
> The second one is that the handling of -a/--alternative-editor is
> problematic,
>
> $ emacs/lib-src/emacsclient -a -c
> emacs/lib-src/emacsclient: file name or argument required
> Try `emacs/lib-src/emacsclient --help' for more information
>
> According to the docstring, the argument to -a is optional, but one
> must supply a empty string explicitly for things to work as
> advertised.
The -a argument is not optional now, at least.
So it looks like both things in this bug report are fixed, and I'm
therefore closing this bug report.
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