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Re: emacsclient from cygwin distro does not work with Cygwin emacs
On 13/03/2012, at 7:04 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Leo <leoslists@letterboxes.org> was heard to say:
>
>> I try to use emacsclient with Cygwin emacs, but it does not
>> work. emacsclient returns:
>>
>> emacsclient: error accessing server file
>> "/cygdrive/c/home/.emacsdata/server/server"
>>
>> In my .emacs file of the running emacs instance I have the following lines:
>>
>> (require 'server)
>> (setq server-auth-dir "/cygdrive/c/home/.emacsdata/server/")
>> (server-start)
>
> I use only (server-start) in my .emacs, so emacsclient per see does work. Apparently it can't cope with your path specification. Does "~/.emacsdata/server/" work? Does "~/.emacs.d/server/" work? Also, it seems like the directory must exist on Windows before Emacs starts up, see this discussion (about halfway down the page):
>
Well, the directory does exist. Furthermore I tried it with "~/.emacsdata/server/" (tilde instead of expanded home directory) first and it doesn't work. Strange thing is it *does* work in NTemacs with the tilde: I can see, that NTemacs creates a file named "server" in the directory "~/.emacsdata/server/"" and emacsclient then finds that file.
Cheers, Leo
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