[9692] in Athena Bugs
xess "server" breaks emacsclient
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Mon Jul 27 18:52:35 1992
To: bug-xess@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, cfyi@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:51:45 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
/mit/xess/decmipsbin contains a program called "server". Anyone who
has /mit/xess/decmipsbin in $PATH (either by having a .path or using
the "add" alias) will not be able to run emacsclient because emacs
will use this program in place of the standard emacs server.
Possible fixes:
rename "server"
move "server" to another directory (is it supposed to be a
user-visible program?)
fix emacs
I sent a bug report a few years ago about this behavior, and was told
that it is a feature, not a bug, that emacs will search $PATH for a
program named server _before_ looking in the emacs lib/etc directory.
I hope the release team will reconsider this position.
Consultants: if a user reports mysterious failure of the emacs server
or emacsclient ("stat: no such file or directory"), check to see if he
has a program named "server" in $PATH.
