Re: GNU Emacs: Client/Server

["Dhruva Krishnamurthy" <devel@furby.fastmail.fm>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:03:49 +0100, "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> said:
> 
> Are you proposing something like mozilla or xmms?  Where
> % mozilla -remote ...
> 
> will connect to an already running mozilla process and send the command
> to that process.  Or like xmms (a music player), where
> % xmms file
> 
> will start playing file on an already running xmms process if one 
> exists.
> 
> Kind of integrating emacsclient in the emacs binary so that
> % emacs -remote ...
> is basically the same as
> % emacsclient ...
> 

Yes. Usually, I use the gnucleintw.exe for opening files in the same GNU
Emacs window. For starters, just opening a file in a running GNU Emacs
sprocess would be fine. Slowly, we can extend it to handle features of
"gnudoit" which can send lisp expressions to be evaluated by a running
GNU Emacs process. The whole idea is to make better packaging (as I do
not see any improvement over existing framework of using gnuserv).

with regards,
dhruva

PS: My understanding of GNU Emacs internals is *highly* limited. I can
contribute ideas but I may not be able to do the actual implementation.
Also, I do have MS Windows app dev exp and hence cannot comment on core
platform dependent issues.
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