emacsclient from cygwin distro does not work with Cygwin emacs

[Ken Brown]

On 3/13/2012 9:04 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Leo <leoslists@letterboxes.org> was heard to say:
>
>> Well, the directory does exist. Furthermore I tried it with
>> "~/.emacsdata/server/" (tilde instead of expanded home directory)
>> first and it doesn't work. Strange thing is it *does* work in NTemacs
>> with the tilde: I can see, that NTemacs creates a file named "server"
>> in the directory "~/.emacsdata/server/"" and emacsclient then finds
>> that file.
>
> I can confirm that Emacs does not honor server-auth-dir. I did not
> customize this variable or alter it otherwise. Its value is
> "~/.emacs.d/server/" which is apparently a hard-coded default. However,
> my server file is in "/tmp/emacs45021/", not in "~/.emacs.d/server/". If
> I quit Emacs and create "~/.emacs.d/server/" (which did not exist on my
> system), Emacs still does not use this directory when I start it again.

I'll look into this as soon as I can.  I don't use emacsclient, so I'll 
need some help.  Please give me step-by-step instructions for 
reproducing the problem, preferably starting with `emacs -Q'.  Tell me 
what happens and what should happen (with pointers to the documentation).

I think I recall relatively recent threads on the emacs-devel list about 
bugs in emacsclient.  So it's possible that the bug has been fixed for 
the upcoming release of emacs-24.1.

BTW, have either of you tried this on Linux to see if it behaves the way 
you expect?

Ken


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