Re: MacOs emacsclient does not start

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:02:16 +0200
> 
> I just tried 
> git revert e96d3c71bdc
> 
> And I obtained
> hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file...
> /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: can't find
> socket; have you started the server?
> 
> /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: To start the
> server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
> 
> /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient: No socket or
> alternate editor.  Please use:
> 
> 
> --socket-name
> 
> --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
> 
> --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
> 
> error: There was a problem with the editor
> '/Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient'.
> 
> Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.
> 
> Indeed in my .login
> I have (tcsh)
> 
> setenv EDITOR /Applications/Emacs29.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient
> 
> 
> But I don't understand what's wrong with this setting. In Linux I have
> 
> setenv EDITOR /opt/emacs29/bin/emacsclient
> 
> And it works fine, I tried to add some parameters to emacsclient in the
> above line  but I obtained to many parameters when running source ~/.login
> 
> 
> Any idea?

Looks like emacsclient on macOS cannot start the daemon, if there's no
Emacs server already running?