On 15/03/2012, at 2:51 AM, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote: > On 3/14/2012 6:19 AM, Leo wrote: >> emacsclient works fine when I unset the environment variable >> "EMACS_SERVER_FILE". This holds true regardless what server-auth-dir is >> set to. >> >> In order to produce the error, do the following: >> >> (1) start emacs -Q. >> (2) execute in the scratch buffer >> (require 'server) >> >> (setq server-auth-dir "~/") >> >> (server-start) >> >> (3) go to a cygwin bash (outside emacs) >> >> (4) set EMACS_SERVER_FILE to "~/server" >> >> (5) run the command >> >> emacsclient ~/.emacs >> >> and you get the error message from the original post, but you'd expect >> to get in emacs a buffer displayed with the .emasc file. > > You forgot to provide the pointers to the documentation that I requested, > explaining why you would expect this. The documentation for > `server-auth-dir' says "We only use this if `server-use-tcp' is non-nil. > Otherwise we use `server-socket-dir'." > > You didn't set `server-use-tcp' in your instructions above. If I insert > > (setq server-use-tcp t) > > before > > (server-start) > > in your step (2), evaluating (server-start) gives me the error message "The > directory `~' is unsafe". So it looks like emacsclient is working as > expected. > > Is there a reason you want emacsclient to use TCP instead of (the default) > local sockets? I suspect this is due to your previous use of native Windows > emacs. Here's a quote from the emacsclient info file: > > An Emacs server usually uses an operating system feature called a > "local socket" to listen for connections. Some operating systems, > such as Microsoft Windows, do not support local sockets; in that > case, Emacs uses TCP instead.
Hi Ken Thanks a lot for your explanation. That exactly seems to happen! Now I was able to set it up, so that it works under Cygwin/X as well. Cheers, Leo -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
