emacsclient problem

Nick Parker nickp@developernotes.com
Mon Feb 21 20:47:00 GMT 2011


On 2/21/2011 2:25 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/21/2011 12:57 PM, Nick Parker wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am attempting to use the cygwin version of emacs and emacsclient,
>> however I am running into an issue.  The scenario that I am attempting
>> is as follows:
>>
>> 1.  Launching emacs from mintty (both of which were installed from the
>> cygwin installer).
>> 2.  A simple init.el inside the .emacs.d directory that looks like this
>> (http://pastie.org/1590067).
>> 3.  Background emacs with C-z
>> 4.  Launch emacsclient somefile.txt to edit the file.
>>
>> When I perform step 4, the command prompt doesn't appear to invoke
>> emacsclient, the display does not change, and I do not see the file I am
>> attempting to view.  I have to issue a C-c to break the prompt back to
>> normal user input.
>>
>> Version Information:
>> mintty:      0.9.5
>> emacs:       23.2.1
>> emacsclient: 23.2
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be the cause of this
>> behavior?  Should this in fact work?  Any suggestions would be
>> appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> I don't see anything in the emacsclient documentation that suggest 
> that the emacs server should continue to run after being suspended 
> with C-z.  Here are two alternatives that do seem to work (but see the 
> documentation for much more information):
>
> 1. Start emacs (and the emacs server) in one mintty window and run 
> emacsclient in another.
>
> 2. Start emacs with the --daemon option.
>
> Ken
>
>
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Ken,

Thank you, the --daemon option is what I was looking for, it worked 
perfectly.  Thanks.

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