GNU bug report logs - #20524
24.4; emacsclient -n doesn't seem to work with -e

Previous Next

To add a comment to this bug, you must first unarchive it, by sending
a message to control AT debbugs.gnu.org, with unarchive 20524 in the body.
You can then email your comments to 20524 AT debbugs.gnu.org in the normal way.

Toggle the display of automated, internal messages from the tracker.

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4; emacsclient -n doesn't seem to work with -e
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 10:04:59 +0100

If an expression to evaluate is supplied to emacsclient, then even with
-n, emacsclient waits for the expression to be evaluated.

(This may be intended behavior, in which case the fix would be simply to
document it.)



In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8)
 of 2014-11-21 on skwd, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
System Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

Configured using:
 `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib
 --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib
 --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
 --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat
 -Werror=format-security -Wall' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Help

Minor modes in effect:
  magit-auto-revert-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  global-undo-tree-mode: t
  undo-tree-mode: t
  global-whitespace-mode: t
  ido-everywhere: t
  dtrt-indent-mode: t
  global-auto-complete-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<up> <up> <up> <up> <down> <down> <down> <up> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <up> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<up> <up> <end> G e n e s i s SPC t o SPC F i l l G 
e n e s i s C-x C-s C-a <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> C-h 
f s w i t c h - t o - b u f f e r <return> C-h f c 
a l l - i n t <tab> <return> M-x g r e p <return> i 
n t e r a c t i v e l y SPC ~ / . e m a c s . d / * 
. e l <return> f o o C-f C-x C-c f o o <return> C-c 
C-g C-f C-f C-x 3 C-g C-g C-x # C-x 5 0 C-g C-x C-x 
C-c C-x 5 6 C-g C-g C-x 5 0 C-g C-x C-x 5 0 C-g C-g 
M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <switch-frame> 
C-x 5 0 C-x 5 0 C-x C-x 5 0 M-x r e p o r t - e m a 
c s <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Quit [2 times]
No server editing buffers exist
Quit emacsclient request
C-x C-c is undefined
C-x 5 6 is undefined
Quit [2 times]
Quit emacsclient request [2 times]
Quit
Back to top level.
When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0 [3 times]

Load-path shadows:
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/xrdb-mode/xrdb-mode hides /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/xrdb-mode
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/csv-mode/csv-mode hides /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/csv-mode
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/quack/quack hides /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/quack
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/markdown-mode/markdown-mode hides /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/markdown-mode
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/filladapt/filladapt hides /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/filladapt
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/graphviz-dot-mode/graphviz-dot-mode hides /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/graphviz-dot-mode
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/browse-kill-ring/browse-kill-ring hides /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/browse-kill-ring
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/apache-mode/apache-mode hides /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/apache-mode
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/home/rrt/.local/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-mode
/home/rrt/.local/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-what-beat hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-what-beat
/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp/cdargs hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cdargs
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/cmake-mode/cmake-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode
/home/rrt/.local/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-init hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-init
/home/rrt/.local/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-song hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-song
/home/rrt/.local/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-indent hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-indent
/home/rrt/.local/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-font-lock hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lilypond-font-lock
/home/rrt/.local/share/emacs/site-lisp/whitespace hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/whitespace
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/ispell
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rst hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/rst
/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/flyspell
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/flymake/flymake hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/progmodes/flymake
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/el-get/cperl-mode/cperl-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug eieio-opt wid-edit descr-text
gitignore-mode smerge-mode misearch multi-isearch magit-key-mode
warnings magit view tramp tramp-compat tramp-loaddefs trampver shell
grep epa epg diff-mode git-rebase-mode git-commit-mode log-edit message
sendmail rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse
rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils
mailheader pcvs-util add-log dired-aux mule-util ox-odt rng-loc rng-uri
rng-parse rng-match rng-dt rng-util rng-pttrn nxml-parse nxml-ns
nxml-enc xmltok nxml-util ox-latex ox-icalendar ox-html ox-ascii
ox-publish ox sh-script smie executable python json adaptive-wrap
paredit conf-mode flymake compile window-margin face-remap flyspell
ispell goto-addr smart-quotes org-element org-indent org-rmail org-mhe
org-irc org-info org-gnus org-docview doc-view jka-compr image-mode
org-bibtex bibtex org-bbdb org-w3m info tex-site sws-mode-autoloads
server paren savehist minibuf-eldef icomplete autorevert filenotify
desktop frameset cus-start cus-load iimage org org-macro org-footnote
org-pcomplete pcomplete org-list org-faces org-entities noutline outline
org-version ob-emacs-lisp ob ob-tangle ob-ref ob-lob ob-table ob-exp
org-src ob-keys ob-comint comint ansi-color ob-core ob-eval org-compat
org-macs org-loaddefs format-spec find-func cal-menu calendar
cal-loaddefs go-mode url url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods
url-history url-cookie url-domsuf url-util mailcap ffap thingatpt
url-parse auth-source gnus-util mm-util mail-prsvr password-cache
url-vars dired-x bug-reference-github bug-reference vc-git undo-tree
diff whitespace locate yasnippet derived po-mode php-mode etags ring
cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine
cc-vars cc-defs speedbar sb-image ezimage dframe init-paredit ido-hacks
ido magit-autoloads geiser-load geiser flymake-point filladapt
dtrt-indent csv auto-complete-config auto-complete edmacro kmacro popup
init-eldoc eldoc-extension cl-macs advice eldoc .loaddefs eieio byte-opt
eieio-core el-get el-get-autoloading el-get-list-packages
el-get-dependencies el-get-build el-get-status pp el-get-methods
el-get-fossil el-get-svn el-get-pacman el-get-github-zip
el-get-github-tar el-get-http-zip el-get-http-tar el-get-hg el-get-go
el-get-git-svn el-get-fink el-get-emacswiki el-get-http el-get-notify
help-mode easymenu el-get-emacsmirror el-get-github el-get-git
el-get-elpa package epg-config el-get-darcs el-get-cvs el-get-bzr
el-get-brew el-get-builtin el-get-apt-get el-get-recipes
el-get-byte-compile el-get-custom el-get-core autoload help-fns lisp-mnt
bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl gv cl-loaddefs cl-lib dired
user-site-loaddefs debian-el debian-el-loaddefs emacs-goodies-el
emacs-goodies-custom emacs-goodies-loaddefs easy-mmode dpkg-dev-el
dpkg-dev-el-loaddefs devhelp time-date tooltip electric uniquify
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd
fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode
prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian
utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev
minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 548954 66679)
 (symbols 48 58656 0)
 (miscs 40 497 1423)
 (strings 32 180153 15922)
 (string-bytes 1 5657971)
 (vectors 16 49278)
 (vector-slots 8 1640842 101758)
 (floats 8 263 482)
 (intervals 56 3539 240)
 (buffers 960 41)
 (heap 1024 62408 1953))

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org/

Message #8 received at 20524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 20524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20524: 24.4; emacsclient -n doesn't seem to work with -e
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:15:36 +0200

Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> writes:

> If an expression to evaluate is supplied to emacsclient, then even with
> -n, emacsclient waits for the expression to be evaluated.
>
> (This may be intended behavior, in which case the fix would be simply to
> document it.)

I've now documented it in the emacsclient man page in Emacs 27.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.