howto use emacs in server mode on debian testing?

howto use emacs in server mode on debian testing?

[Jonas Stein]

id like to use the new server-client feature of emacs in debian testing.
How can this be done?

I want to improve the startuptime after typing the command 'emacs' for 
every user on the system.

With a famous search engine i found 
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon

But that looks very complicate to me, as there are hardcoded 
versionnumbers and a lot more i have to be aware with every update
of the systems. 

Is there a official, easy and stable solution already?

Thanks a lot,

-- 
Jonas Stein <news@jonasstein.de>

Re: howto use emacs in server mode on debian testing?

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Jonas,

On Sunday 31 January 2010 12:00 PM, Jonas Stein wrote:
> id like to use the new server-client feature of emacs in debian testing.
> How can this be done?
>
> I want to improve the startuptime after typing the command 'emacs' for
> every user on the system.
>
> With a famous search engine i found
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon

You can try setting the /EDITOR/ variable and always call emacs using
that. This looks for a running server, if there isn't one then it
starts a new server.

> $ echo $EDITOR
> emacsclient -nw -a=""

Or you can try putting the following in /etc/skel/.emacs,

> ;; start a server and make sure it has a name
> (require 'server)
> (setq server-host (system-name)
> 	       server-use-tcp t)
> (server-start)

However you should keep in mind that not every user wants to run emacs
in server mode.

HTH
-- 
Suvayu

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