Re: Back to emacsclient/server

[Jan Djärv]

Stefan Monnier skrev:
> > Isn't it better to start with a well known number and if that is busy, just
> > add 1 until you get a free one?  That way emacslcient can have a default which
> > just works if there is just one emacs server running.
>
> Huh?  Why would you need that.
> It seems just as simple to
> - bind to any port.

And if that fails, what do you do?  You still have to handle bind failures.


> - get the port that was used.
> - write it into ~/.emacs.d/server/server ("server" is the default
>   `server-name') along with the host name and the auth key.
>
> emacsclient looks in ~/.emacs.d/server/server (where "server" is the
> default but can be changed with --server-name) to find all the relevant info.
>
> > Emacsclient by default then reads ~/emacs.d/server-0.  emacsclient --server 1
> > would be ~/emacs.d/server-1.
>
> That sounds messy.

If you think so, I don't see much difference.

        Jan D.