From d4239658627f44ae7639a8870cfa7cf20dfd9b07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Lange <carl@flax.ie>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 13:44:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add a bit of documentation about setting the server socket

---
 doc/DOCUMENTATION.org | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org b/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org
index 82f6bcfef..0bdd1d7b8 100644
--- a/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org
+++ b/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org
@@ -3368,6 +3368,12 @@ export EDITOR="/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient -c"
 Tip: Remember to use ~:wq~ or ~C-x #~ after you are done editing the file in
 Emacs.
 
+You can set the location of the Emacs server socket by setting =dotspacemacs-server-socket-dir= in your =~./spacemacs=:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+(setq-default dotspacemacs-server-socket-dir "~/.emacs/server")
+#+END_SRC
+
 See [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html][Emacs as a Server]] in the official Emacs manual for more details.
 
 ** Keeping the server alive