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Re: emacsclient does not start: How to create a server file?
From: |
William Gardella |
Subject: |
Re: emacsclient does not start: How to create a server file? |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:02:08 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Stefan,
Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> when I try to open a file with emacsclient, I get
>
> emacsclient -f ~/.emacs.d/se .emacs
> emacsclient: error accessing server file "/home/haawda/.emacs.d/se"
>
> If I do not specify the server file with -f, I get a similar message, but
> wit ~/tmp/server. The server files do not exist. How can they be created?
> And why is ~/tmp the default?
>
> I am on Arch Linux. My emacs is a selfcompiled version from the xwidget
> branch, but the behaviour also happens with an emacs from trunk with lucid
> gui.
Is the server already running?
If not, one good technique is to run emacsclient -a "" or have
ALTERNATE_EDITOR="" in your environment. Either way, this will cause
emacsclient to start an emacs --daemon in the background and then
connect to it, rather than just exiting with an error that it can't find
the server.
I am not sure why ~/tmp/server is the default server file for you.
Perhaps it has to do with the prefix you used when configuring?
--
Regards,
WGG