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authorGerd Moellmann <[email protected]>2000-01-03 15:56:05 +0000
committerGerd Moellmann <[email protected]>2000-01-03 15:56:05 +0000
commit1de6bfb1b851ea8981b2fd0adab24632fc6f3129 (patch)
tree5ea97e1a4f77a205e22c4ad92079cf704c921066 /man/faq.texi
parent047f434ac505fb38c222af9e6107d94ba3d23eee (diff)
Add socket name `esrv-USERID-SYSTEMNAME' for emacsserver.
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@@ -1470,8 +1470,10 @@ or by invoking @code{server-start} from @file{.emacs}:
@end lisp
When this is done, Emacs starts a subprocess running a program called
-@samp{server}. @samp{server} creates a Unix domain socket, named
-@file{.emacs_server}, in the user's home directory.
+@samp{server}. @samp{server} creates a Unix domain socket. The socket
+is either named @file{.emacs_server}, in the user's home directory,
+or @file{esrv-@var{USER-ID}-@var{SYSTEM-NAME}}, in the @file{/tmp}
+directory, depending on how @samp{emacsserver} was compiled.
To get your news reader, mail reader, etc., to invoke
@samp{emacsclient}, try setting the environment variable @code{EDITOR}