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bug#23576: [documentation] ‘Using Emacs as a Server’: ‘M-x set-variable
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Dmitry Alexandrov |
Subject: |
bug#23576: [documentation] ‘Using Emacs as a Server’: ‘M-x set-variable RET server-name RET foo RET’ |
Date: |
Wed, 18 May 2016 22:25:38 +0300 |
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Chapter 38 ‘Using Emacs as a Server’ in ‘GNU Emacs Manual’ says [0] the
following:
You can run multiple Emacs servers on the same machine by giving
each one a unique “server name”, using the variable server-name. For
example, M-x set-variable RET server-name RET foo RET sets the
server name to ‘foo’.
[0]
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html
First of all, ‘M-x set-variable RET server-name RET foo RET’ just does
not work, returning “Value ‘foo’ does not match type string of
server-name”. It actually should be ‘M-x set-variable RET server-name
RET "foo" RET’, since ‘server-name’ requires a string.
However, I found this example pretty confusing in general: when the
server is not started yet, setting ‘server-name’ with ‘M-x set-variable’
is impossible (variable does not exist yet); when the server is already
running, there is no much sense in setting it, since it does not rename
the instance on-the-fly.
¿Would not it be more useful to give as an example of how to start
multiple Emacs servers something like:
$ emacs --eval '(setq server-name "foo")' --daemon
- bug#23576: [documentation] ‘Using Emacs as a Server’: ‘M-x set-variable RET server-name RET foo RET’,
Dmitry Alexandrov <=