Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode.

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008 2:17 PM, Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Personally I must admit to being surprised that emacsclient doesn't
>> invoke emacs if there is not an existing emacs running - that one
>> ommission makes it tricky to set up emacsclient as default viewer/editor
>> in many cases.
> 
> Of course you can run emacsclient so it will start Emacs if it is not
> running; that's what the --alternate-editor option is for. The trick,
> of course, is that --alternate-editor doesn't run Emacs as a server
> connected to the emacsclient instance that started it. That does not
> preclude using it as default viewer/editor in all cases, just the ones
> where it is automatically run from a tool that expects it to be done
> when emacsclient returns (for example, in many VCS when emacsclient is
> used as the editor for the commit logs).
> 
>> I've read reasonings as to why it doesn't launch emacs if
>> not already done, but, well, it just seems quite wrong
> 
> I haven't read (in the emacs-devel list) reasonings as to why it
> *shouldn't* do it, just as to why it is not yet implemented.


Juanma, it might be time to start looking at it again, or? As you know I 
have code for this. I have tried to break the 
"start-emacs-automatically" part from the gui part now.

I would be glad to get your help to get this into Emacs. Even if another 
implementation for it is choosen later that will not be very hard to 
change (if we structure the code so that it can easily be changed 
later). What do you say, Juanma?