From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to use emacsclient as the Gnome system editor? Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:34:49 +0100 Message-ID: <45631C99.6090307@student.lu.se> References: <87irh9j5nj.fsf@bang.priv.no> <85ac2k27wp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164123318 6709 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2006 15:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 16:35:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmXeV-0000KC-15 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:35:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmXeU-0004NB-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmXeD-0004Jy-DC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmXeA-0004EM-QA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmXeA-0004DQ-2x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:34:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.213] (helo=ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GmXe8-0003Xz-Q5; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:34:53 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60565 helo=[192.168.123.121]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GmXe7-0004vC-6i; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:34:51 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85ac2k27wp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GmXe7-0004vC-6i. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1GmXe7-0004vC-6i 1f1ef21efd7149547b5037be1a2c88de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38858 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Lennart Borgman 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.