Re: emacsclient stuck "Waiting for Emacs..."

[Anselm Helbig]

At Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:35:42 -0500,
Joseph Garvin <joseph.h.garvin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm running emacs 22.0.96.1. I've put (server-start) in my rc file, and when 
> I run emacsclient on a file it opens it my existing emacs just as it should. 
> But emacsclient never detects
> that emacs has opened the file and just sits there "Waiting for Emacs..." 
> after that. If in emacs I restart the server M-x server-start, then 
> emacsclient stops waiting (because it
> finally realizes it finished or because it detects a disconnect, I don't 
> know). I've looked in my /tmp and verified there's an entry for the emacs 
> server there. In case it's relevant,
> I'm running on Solaris 10.
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> Any ideas how to fix emacsclient?

It's not broken. Emacsclient is designed to behave like this so that
you can use it as a replacement for other editors, e.g. for composing
mail in mutt, or writing a commit message for subversion. The calling
program needs to know when you're done editing, you do that with 
`C-x #' (server-edit) from emacs. 

To get the behaviour you desire you have to pass the -n switch to
emacsclient. I have a shell function that does that for me:

  ec() { emacsclient -n "$@"; }

HTH

Anselm


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