emacsclient from cygwin distro does not work with Cygwin emacs

[Markus Hoenicka]

Hi,

Leo <leoslists@letterboxes.org> was heard to say:

> I try to use emacsclient with Cygwin emacs, but it does not
> work. emacsclient returns:
>
>       emacsclient: error accessing server file
>       "/cygdrive/c/home/.emacsdata/server/server"
>
> In my .emacs file of the running emacs instance I have the following lines:
>
>       (require 'server)
>       (setq server-auth-dir "/cygdrive/c/home/.emacsdata/server/")
>       (server-start)

I use only (server-start) in my .emacs, so emacsclient per see does  
work. Apparently it can't cope with your path specification. Does  
"~/.emacsdata/server/" work? Does "~/.emacs.d/server/" work? Also, it  
seems like the directory must exist on Windows before Emacs starts up,  
see this discussion (about halfway down the page):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885793/emacs-error-when-calling-server-start

regards,
Markus

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