From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to use emacsclient as the Gnome system editor?
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:34:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45631C99.6090307@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ac2k27wp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
David Kastrup wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
>
>> Basically: yes. However with the current emacsclient you have to start
>> emacs first.
>
> Not true. You can use `-a emacs' in the emacsclient invocation.
>
>> There has currently been a discussion on the emacs devel list where
>> I have tried to argue that in Emacs 22 emacsclient should be able to
>> automatically start emacs when needed. I think most people there
>> would agree it is a good (but for many not very important)
>> thing. However it does not seem that it will make it into Emacs 22.
>
> For the GNOME association, the above should do the trick perfectly
> well.
>
Yes, you are right. However you have also to start emacs server in your
init files.
The more problematic case is when you want to use emacs as an edit
server for another program and wait. In that case you have to have emacs
started first.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-21 13:22 Is it possible to use emacsclient as the Gnome system editor? Steinar Bang
2006-11-21 13:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-11-21 14:07 ` Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.938.1164117578.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-21 14:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-11-21 15:34 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-11-22 7:53 ` Steinar Bang
[not found] ` <mailman.977.1164182027.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-22 10:08 ` David Kastrup
[not found] <mailman.934.1164115395.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-11-21 13:42 ` Charles philip Chan
2006-11-22 7:40 ` Steinar Bang
2006-11-21 18:07 ` Olive
2006-11-21 19:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=45631C99.6090307@student.lu.se \
--to=lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).