Magit commit issues on wsl2

Feb 18, 2024

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The magit package uses the with-editor package to spin up an emacsclient in order to run subprocesses. This is used when drafting commit messages.

With a vanilla installation of Ubuntu 22.04, I'm not able to spin up an emacsclient:

  emacsclient helloworld
  # emacsclient: can't connect to /run/user/1000//emacs/server: Permission denied
  # emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:
  # 
  #         --socket-name
  #         --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE

I've fixed this by changing the ownership of that directory to myself: sudo chown ${USER}:${USER} $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and it works!

And now I can commit. :)

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-12/msg00094.html