From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Porter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#646: emacsclient with no args to behave like -a Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:00:12 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4287a62c0808040310m6d817102lb3bdf4982e6451d7@mail.gmail.com> <878s0nr2af.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32247"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 646@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen , J. 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[76.168.148.233]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id o9sm4674349pfh.217.2021.08.26.21.00.12 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 26 Aug 2021 21:00:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <878s0nr2af.fsf@gnus.org> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:212789 Archived-At: On 8/26/2021 8:31 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > "J. Pablo "Fernández\"" 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