From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make emacsclient act as a new frame
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:14:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B0B177.3040000@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f230850707302135l40954821iec259f02de98106e@mail.gmail.com>
Yea, I don't want to open a new frame in X, I want the emacsclient to BE
the new frame. In other words, when I run crontab -e in an xterm I want
to edit the crontab in that xterm, not tab to the emacs window while the
xterm appears, for all intents and purposes, to be hung.
dhruva wrote:
> Not sure if I understand you correctly... If you want to edit a file
> in a new frame other than the primary Emacs frame, you could use the
> following syntax:
> $ emacsclient -n -e "(find-file-other-frame \"~/_emacs\")"
> The stuff between \"...\" could be a command line variable if you set
> is as a SHELL alias (or doskey macro).
> The above command creates a new frame and opens the file in the new
> frame. The command line does not wait till you complete the editing
> and closing of the file.
>
> -dky
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-01 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-30 20:24 Suggestion: Make emacsclient act as a new frame Phillip Susi
2007-07-31 4:35 ` dhruva
2007-07-31 6:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-01 16:14 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2007-08-01 19:06 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-02 3:40 ` dhruva
2007-08-02 6:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-08-02 7:54 ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-31 5:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-31 10:11 ` Leo
2007-07-31 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-02 14:27 ` Leo
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