Re: reportbug and remapped "edit"

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use reportbug to file a bug report.
>
> However, my .zshrc contains "alias edit='emacsclient -c -s
> /tmp/emacs1000/server", as I have an emacs session running and would like to
> be able to use "edit file.txt" in the terminal to spawn a connection to
> emacsclient.
>
> When running reportbug, this yields:
>
> Spawning emacsclient...
> emacsclient: connect: Connection refused
> emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:
>
>     --socket-name
>     --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
>     --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
> Warning: possible error exit from emacsclient: 256
> No changes were made in the editor.
>
> Ok, fine -- what's the workaround?

Just unalias the alias corresponding to edit (the one you set up in
~/.zshrc) before launching reportbug. After that set it back. IIUC
there is no need to launch a bash subshell to do this. You can do
everything while you are in zsh.

So the sequence of commands would be

% unalias edit
% reportbug &
% alias edit='emacsclient -c -s /tmp/emacs1000/server'

hope that helps
raju

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