Re: emacsclient startup messages

[Peter Oliver]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2021, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> > > > > > On Fri, 05 Nov 2021, Jim Porter wrote:
>
> > On 11/5/2021 2:40 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > $ emacsclient -t --alternate-editor=
> > > emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
> > > emacsclient: To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
> > > Another Emacs daemon is already running at process id 6084
> > > Error: server did not start correctly
> > > Error: Could not start the Emacs daemon
> > > $
>
> > Why are you (or the Gentoo package) running with `--alternate-editor='
> > if a daemon was already started?
>
> Because the user may not be sure if a daemon is running, and may want to
> start it just in case? Which fails with the patch applied.

Thinking out loud, would systemd socket activation help here, or would that 
simply move the issue elsewhere?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html#index-socket-activation_002c-systemd_002c-Emacs

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Peter Oliver