* bug#23141: 25.1.50; emacsclient.desktop
@ 2016-03-29 10:10 Helmut Eller
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From: Helmut Eller @ 2016-03-29 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 23141
It would be useful to have a emacsclient.desktop file, because that
makes it possible to use emacsclient with docks/panels or the "Open
with" menu in some file managers.
Emacs already comes with emacs.desktop file, but that starts a new Emacs
process every time. The emacsclient.desktop should use an existing
Emacs if there is one or start a new Emacs if there is none.
I created my own emacsclient.desktop (see below) but I think many people
would like something like that and it would be more efficient to ship a
good emacsclient.desktop with Emacs.
My version uses two (perhaps not so obvious) tricks:
1) the "-a emacs" part starts a new Emacs if no existing Emacs process
can be found
2) adding +0 makes it possible to start emacsclient without file
argument. Emacs will then switch to the scratch buffer.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Emacsclient
Comment=Tells a running Emacs to visit a file
Exec=emacsclient -a emacs --no-wait +0 %F
Icon=emacs24
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Development;TextEditor;
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* bug#23141: 25.1.50; emacsclient.desktop
2015-07-12 4:08 bug#21042: There exists etc/emacs.desktop. Please consider adding an emacsclient.desktop Vaidheeswaran C
@ 2021-02-07 13:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2021-02-07 13:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vaidheeswaran C; +Cc: 21042, 23141, Rusi
Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com> writes:
> There exists etc/emacs.desktop. Please consider adding an
> emacsclient.desktop
This was added to Emacs 28 earlier this year, so I'm closing this bug
report.
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