Re: Pretest

[Stefan Monnier]

> So the "most important use case" according to you is basically a command
> line call, not a GUI call.  That was not obvious to me.  And we are
> talking about an emacsclient connection on Windows.

AFAIK this has nothing to do with w32-vs-theworld.  The same issue
exists everywhere.

> Wouldn't it be saner if emacsclient just started Emacs (probably with
> a specific command line option), and when Emacs was finished with
> editing the respective buffer, it would detach itself from emacsclient
> which would then exit?

Sure.  Patch welcome.  Maybe you can find a neat wait to do the  "detach"
part, but off-the-top-of-my-head I can't think of a simple way to do it.


        Stefan