I've tweaked the errors slightly anyway to hopefully make them a bit
simpler. thanks
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:47:05PM +0530, Karthik K wrote:
>Hmm.. Your arguments do hold merit. It's just that everyone I know have
>been stumped by this message when they start using tmux. Just felt that
I think we should change it to just "no server running" or something, it
better matches the "no sessions" that you get if you try "tmux attach":
diff --git a/client.c b/client.c
index 042ec92..e8d2b25 100644
--- a/client.c
+++ b/client.c
@@ -261,8 +261,12 @@ client_main(int argc, char **argv, int
Hmm.. Your arguments do hold merit. It's just that everyone I know have
been stumped by this message when they start using tmux. Just felt that the
error message should be more descriptive explaining the most common reason
for connection being refused.
On Apr 15, 2015 8:33 PM, "Nicholas Marriott"
We could change it to something like "couldn't connect to server" or ask
"is the server running?" but I don't see much difference from "failed to
connect to server".
I don't think it is sensible to mention sessions, for tmux the server is
"the process that contains the sessions" by definition, we
On 15 April 2015 at 15:50, Karthik K wrote:
> Although the explanation for what a server is, is given in the man page, the
> argument still holds. The error message just makes you think that there is
> something wrong with the connection.
Which is correct; no sessions means no server.
I really w
Although the explanation for what a server is, is given in the man page,
the argument still holds. The error message just makes you think that there
is something wrong with the connection.
If it's not possible to patch the code, maybe atleast an entry can be added
at the end of the manpage detaili
Hi
I think the current message is fine. We describe what is meant by
"server" in the first few paragraphs of the man page.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:06:58PM +0530, Karthik K wrote:
> ---
> client.c | 11 ---
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/client.c
