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bug#44472: 27.1; emacsclient 27.1 unable to properly start & connect to
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#44472: 27.1; emacsclient 27.1 unable to properly start & connect to emacs server via: emacsclient -a '' -c |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 07:10:30 +0200 |
> From: Al G <alg@panix.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:06:52 -0500
>
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> [Start of bug report]
> In emacs 27.1, the command:
> emacsclient -a '' -c &
>
> Doesn't anymore start emacs as a daemon server.
Not on Cygwin, it seems. This appears to be a Cygwin-specific
problem.
> This is critical, because many people use emacsclient in this manner
> to optionally start the server if it doesn't exist, and simply
> connect to it if it's already running. Please fix this, or at least
> backout the changes that broke emacsclient.
I believe this was recently fixed for the upcoming Emacs 27.2. If you
can build the latest emacs-27 branch of the Emacs Git repository, I
think you will see that the problem is gone.