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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: "J. Pablo Fernández" <pupeno@pupeno.com>, 646@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#646: emacsclient with no args to behave like -a
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:50:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v93rndr1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67399b53-e649-bd25-bdb4-107bfb95c0f6@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:06:18 -0700")

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> "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]

I think that's how emacsclient works these days -- if you set
ALTERNATE_EDITOR to the empty string.  (It starts a new daemon Emacs and
then connects to it.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-27 14:50 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
2021-08-27 14:50         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-08-27 17:18           ` Jim Porter
2021-08-28 15:02             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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