emacsclient stuck "Waiting for Emacs..."

[Joseph Garvin]

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.

Any ideas how to fix emacsclient?

thanks

[Lennart Borgman]

Send a bug report! M-x report-emacs-bug

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Joseph Garvin <joseph....@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
>
> Any ideas how to fix emacsclient?

Did you hit C-x # after editing your file?

> thanks

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[Anselm Helbig]

At Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:35:42 -0500,
Joseph Garvin <joseph....@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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[Lennart Borgman]

Sorry, it acts as it should it waits... - as Anselm points out. (I
should read a bit more before answering...)

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Lennart
Borgman<lennart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Send a bug report! M-x report-emacs-bug
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Joseph Garvin<joseph....@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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.
>>
>> Any ideas how to fix emacsclient?
>>

>> thanks
>>
>

[Joost Kremers]

Joseph Garvin wrote:
> Any ideas how to fix emacsclient?

yes: read the documentation for emacsclient:

(info "(emacs) Invoking emacsclient")

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