Re: Emacs making questions while starting in daemon mode

[Dan Nicolaescu]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Chad Brown writes:
>
>  > There are probably roughly as many annoying corner cases in the
>  > `bull ahead' strategy as there are in the `wait for input'
>  > strategy.  Rather than trying to weigh and balance exceptional
>  > cases, why don't we look into having emacs open a window to ask
>  > those questions (or at least ask about bull-ahead-or-hang) if it's
>  > run --daemon?
>
> Because in many cases you won't find.  At least one of the systems I
> run Emacsen on is headless.
>
> I think Dan is right -- this is basically a user error.  And I think
> that Óscar is also right ... anything that tries to access a
> non-existent console should signal an error.

That happens already:

$ cat .emacs
(yes-or-no-p "Question?")
$ emacs --daemon < /dev/null
 emacs --daemon < /dev/null
("emacs")
Question?(yes or no) Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading 
`/home/dann/.emacs':

error: Error reading from stdin

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
Starting Emacs daemon.

I suspect that the tool he uses to start emacs provides some bogus
stdin and emacs dutifully waits for input from there.