Re: screen & emacs

[Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>]

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:
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alias emacs='emacsclient -a="" -nw'
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and similarly in your .screenrc:
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screen -t EMACS	      4 emacsclient -a="" -nw
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Philipp Haselwarter