From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change in emacsclient behavior Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:34:21 +0200 Message-ID: <85hcm8hmwi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87veaw5ds5.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87veatxcrz.fsf@jurta.org> <59272.128.165.123.18.1188947304.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189024486 17794 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2007 20:34:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 22:34:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IT1aH-0000Dx-99 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:34:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IT1aF-0006c4-L2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IT1aB-0006bX-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IT1aA-0006bJ-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IT1aA-0006bG-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:34:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IT1a3-0005zN-Nd; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:34:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.14]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9E61F5CD5; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:34:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.45]) by mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6FD1143CA; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:34:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-072-218.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.72.218]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12A61C3687; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:34:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 583D01CAD71B; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 22:34:21 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 05 Sep 2007 16\:02\:44 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4166/Wed Sep 5 17:20:22 2007 on mail-in-05.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77905 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > For the UI, emacsclient can: > > 1. Create and become a tty for Emacs (with at least one frame). > 2. Create and raise a graphical frame for Emacs on the current $DISPLAY. > 3. Raise an existing graphical frame for Emacs on the current $DISPLAY, or > elsewhere if no such exists. > 4. Try to raise an existing frame, or create one if it doesn't exist. > 5. Become a pipe for Emacs (which may or may not produce any terminal > output). > > These all seem useful in principle. 5 seems hard and I doubt it is > worth implementing. It would make it possible to configure an Emacsclient invocation as a $PAGER command. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum