Re: screen & emacs

[Andreas Marschke <xxtjaxx@googlemail.com>]

Oh thanks for that tipp. Its part of my conf now thanks!

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:31:58PM +0100, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
> Andreas Marschke <xxtjaxx@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
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> >
> > Here is a more elaborate example from both my `.screenrc' and my
> > `.bashrc':
> > --------: .bashrc
> > function emacs()
> > {
> >     if [ -x /tmp/emacs$UID/server ];then
> > 	emacsclient -nw $@
> >     else
> > 	screen emacs -nw -f server-start $@
> >     fi
> > }
> >
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> 
> This shouldn't be necessary anymore, I used to use a similar construct,
> but there's simpler.
> If you run emacsclient with `-a=""' or `--alternate-editor=""', it tries
> to connect to the server first, and if it fails to connect, starts
> it. This way, you never end up trying to start several daemons at once
> etc:
> .bashrc:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> alias emacs='emacsclient -a="" -nw'
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> and similarly in your .screenrc:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> screen -t EMACS	      4 emacsclient -a="" -nw
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> -- 
> Philipp Haselwarter
> 
> 

-- 
Cheers,

Andreas Marschke