From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacsclient commandline
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:18:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cd944c7-5946-4e99-8528-2946ad51b498@b2g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gablfm$okl$1@aioe.org
On Sep 11, 10:45 pm, Oleksandr Gavenko <gaven...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rustom Mody wrote:
> > I am trying to construct a command line such that:
>
> > if emacs is running the client asks the server to raise-frame else it
> > calls runemacs.
>
> > The command line Ive given is:
> > $ emacsclient -a runemacs -e "(raise-frame)"
>
> > But this opens a file (or buffer) called '(raise-frame)' !!
>
> > Of course just
> > $ emacsclient -e "(raise-frame)"
>
> > raises the emacs frame alright but fails for the case of no server.
>
> > Another minor point:
> > When emacsclient is used with the -a option and there is no server
> > running it pops up a window saying ERROR No error !!
> > I guess this is an error (in emacsclient) :-)
>
> > Starting from the vbs file on the emacswiki Ive constructed my own
> > launch-emacs as below but I dont like the loop and the sql and all the
> > heavy stuff, hence this attempt.
>
> > My launch-emacs-client.vbs
> > ------------------------
> > Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
> > Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>
> > strComputer = "."
>
> > Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
>
> > Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Process")
> > Dim isRunning
> > isRunning = False
>
> > For Each objItem in colItems
> > If InStr(objItem.CommandLine, "emacs.exe") Then
> > isRunning = True
> > End If
> > Next
>
> > parent = fso.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)
> > If WScript.Arguments.Count = 1 Then
> > If isRunning Then
> > callString = parent & "/emacsclientw.exe -n """ &
> > WScript.Arguments(0) & """"
> > Else
> > callString = parent & "/runemacs.exe """ & WScript.Arguments(0) & """"
> > End If
> > Else
> > If isRunning Then
> > callString = parent & "/emacsclientw.exe -n -e ""(raise-frame)"""
> > else
> > callString = parent & "/runemacs.exe"
> > End If
> > End if
> > objShell.Run(callString)
>
> On Windows I wrote e.bat. Usually at Total Commander or Far file manager
> I find file by cursor, type e<space><CTRL+Enter> and emacs popup with
> opened file (if it already not opened I get error and quickly type
> <Enter>). As for me `--no-wait' very useful not needed type C-x # and I
> can come back to the opened file later typing C-x b.
>
> @echo off
> REM Copyright (C) 2008 by Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenk...@gmail.com>
>
> REM View file in emacs buffer using emacsclientw.
> REM If emacs not already running, run it.
> REM Put this file (e.bat) in your PATH.
> REM Name `e' because `edit'.
>
> if "%1" == "-h" goto usage
> if "%1" == "-help" goto usage
> if "%1" == "--help" goto usage
>
> %HOME%\..\bin\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -a emacs -n "%*"
> goto EOF
>
> :usage
> @echo Win emacs run script.
> @echo Usage
> @echo e [-h^|--help] ^<edit-files^>
>
> :EOF
The emacs-wiki code is better because it does not 'error'
And my code is better because it does something useful in all 4 cases:
(with and without file argument; with and without emacs server
running)
My question was basically about some way of making the VBS code more
efficient and shorter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-12 13:18 UTC|newest]
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2008-09-11 17:45 ` emacsclient commandline Oleksandr Gavenko
2008-09-12 13:18 ` rustom [this message]
2008-09-12 17:37 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2008-08-20 14:49 Rustom Mody
2008-08-20 15:34 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-21 5:50 ` Rustom Mody
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