Re: How to get "emacsclient --eval x" to DWIM when Emacs is not started

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Mathias Dahl wrote:
> >  I think it would be a good change for emacsclient to auto-start an Emacs
> >  server if the server is not running yet.
>
> When Emacs is used as alternate editor, why can't emacsclient simply
> wait until it is started and then try doing the eval the user
> requested with --eval? I already have (server-start) in my .emacs so
> there is no need for emacsclient to start it.

That is part of the patch I have.