From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "J. Pablo Fernández" <pupeno@pupeno.com>, 646@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#646: emacsclient with no args to behave like -a
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:06:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67399b53-e649-bd25-bdb4-107bfb95c0f6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0k7plq7.fsf@gnus.org>
On 8/26/2021 9:14 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From my reading, this is the original reporter's preferred behavior:
>>
>> 1) If Emacs is not currently running
>> a) `emacsclient file.txt' starts Emacs and opens file.txt
>> b) `emacsclient' starts Emacs (as though running `emacs')
>> 2) If Emacs is currently running
>> a) `emacsclient file.txt' opens file.txt in the existing Emacs session
>> b) `emacsclient' brings some frame in the existing Emacs session
>> to the foreground
>
> That's not my reading. The bug reporter said "It would be nice if
> emacsclient, when called with no arguments, would just run the alternate
> editor." I.e., emulate the "-a" parameter when called with no
> parameters.
>
> (He's also using Emacs as the alternate, but that's just a detail.)
Indeed, it's not 100% clear, especially since this is from so long ago
that I can't quite remember how emacsclient worked back then. However, I
did a bit of archaeology and found the following passage in a blog post
from around the same time:
"First, I recommend using the W32 package. W32 has hacked the
emacsclient in several useful ways. It will start Emacs if it isn't
already running, it will call "raise-frame" on the Emacs window when
started, and it permits starting emacsclient without a filename. "[1]
The last bit confirms that Lennart's patched emacsclient *could* work as
in (2b) above.[2] Whether that's what the original reporter wanted is
another story (though it's how I interpret it)...
[1] http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/03/windows-and-daemons.html
[2] Unfortunately, I couldn't find the sources for Emacs+EmacsW32 to
confirm this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-27 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 10:10 bug#646: No arguments J. Pablo Fernández
2008-08-04 14:27 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-05 5:31 ` J. Pablo" Fernández
2008-08-05 9:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2021-08-27 3:31 ` bug#646: emacsclient with no args to behave like -a Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-27 4:00 ` Jim Porter
2021-08-27 4:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-27 5:06 ` Jim Porter [this message]
2021-08-27 14:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-27 17:18 ` Jim Porter
2021-08-28 15:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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