From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 31709@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31709: 27.0.50; Wishlist: Perhaps Emacs should load a file when getting a particular signal?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:27:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ene91op.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tvqikcwn.fsf@gnus.org>
On 2018-06-04, at 13:29, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Once again I find myself in the situation that I've started an Emacs at
> home without an Emacs server socket, and I know there's something in a
> buffer there that I want to get a hold of. But I'm at work, and there's
> no way to make Emacs start a server remotely.
>
> It would be really nice if I could just ssh to the machine where the
> Emacs is running, do "kill -USR1 <pid>" and then ... Emacs could do
> something. Like load "~/.emacs.d/load-file-USR1" or something. Or just
> start emacs-server.
>
> There are security implications, of course... But does this seem like
> something useful?
>
> Writing a package that does this is easy, of course, but if you know
> that this is something you need, then you'd already have started the
> Emacs server anyway. So it would have to be something that's available
> in Emacs by default, because you only need it if you didn't know that
> you were going to need it. :-)
Out of curiosity: is there any downside to having server-start in your
init.el?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-04 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-04 11:29 bug#31709: 27.0.50; Wishlist: Perhaps Emacs should load a file when getting a particular signal? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-06-04 12:27 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2018-06-05 13:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-06-04 14:52 ` João Távora
2018-06-05 13:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-06-04 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-05 13:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-06-05 14:28 ` Phil Sainty
2018-06-05 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-05 15:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-06-05 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-05 16:20 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-05 15:35 ` Phil Sainty
2018-06-05 15:51 ` Phil Sainty
2018-06-05 16:24 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-05 16:36 ` Phil Sainty
2018-06-05 17:05 ` Phil Sainty
2019-09-21 8:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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