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Reputation: 11

Emacs daemon/server with slash in the name

When I try the following command it works as expected:

emacsclient -t -s foo

Tries to connect to an emacs daemon named `foo' and if no such daemon is found starts one and then connects to it.

but this does not:

emacsclient -t -s foo/bar

It never finds the emacs daemon named foo/bar and is never able to connect to it.

emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
Starting Emacs daemon.

It does, however, spawn an emacs daemon with the name "foo/bar" and I can see it with the ps -ef | grep emacs command

user1 184936 1 0 Jul31 ? 00:00:00 emacs --daemon=foo/bar

I believe this is because on linux you are not allowed to create filenames with '/' in it. The emacs --daemon=foo ends up creating a file under /tmp/emacs709/foo in my system. If that's the case should this not result in an appropriate error message instead of spawning a daemon and not being able to connect to it?

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