From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 646@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#646: emacsclient with no args to behave like -a
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:00:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e53aa277-919a-5779-4d29-9ee3ca497968@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s0nr2af.fsf@gnus.org>
On 8/26/2021 8:31 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> "J. Pablo "Fernández\"" <pupeno@pupeno.com> writes:
>
>> It would be nice if emacsclient, when called with no arguments, would
>> just run the alternate editor. I've configured emacs as my alternate
>> editor so emacsclient for me is basically a "open this in an existing
>> emacs or run one otherwise", the only problem for that to work
>> completely is having it working with no arguments.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't
> resolved at the time.)
>
> It seems like this has been fixed in the 13 years since it was reported.
>
> I did:
>
> larsi@elva:~/src/emacs/trunk$ export ALTERNATE_EDITOR=nano
> larsi@elva:~/src/emacs/trunk$ ./lib-src/emacsclient /tmp/foo
>
> and that opened nano.
It sounds to me like the "args" in question would be "/tmp/foo" in this
case. On Emacs 27.2 and 28.0.50, I see:
$ export ALTERNATE_EDITOR=nano
$ lib-src/emacsclient
lib-src/emacsclient: file name or argument required
Try 'lib-src/emacsclient --help' for more information
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-27 4:00 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 [this message]
2021-08-27 4:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-27 5:06 ` Jim Porter
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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