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From: Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode.
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:32:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <605sr0F1p7vlgU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6605.1201445728.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> 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. 

Thanks for mentioning that. Staring right there at me - I had completely
missed that option. Suddenly all my defaults work a lot better :-;

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24  0:51 Starting emacs in ediff mode DaLoverhino
2008-01-24  2:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-24 16:50   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-25  9:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-25 14:55       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-25 16:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-25 17:03           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-26  8:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-26 13:46               ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-26 14:21                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.6567.1201357297.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-26 19:50                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-26 20:52                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-26 21:55                       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]             ` <mailman.6561.1201337056.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-27 13:17               ` Richard G Riley
2008-01-27 14:55                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-27 15:13                   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-27 22:25                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-01-28 16:00                   ` reader
2008-01-28 16:36                     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-01-28 16:43                       ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.6605.1201445728.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-28 11:32                   ` Richard G Riley [this message]
     [not found]         ` <mailman.6531.1201279722.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-25 20:58           ` DaLoverhino
2008-01-26  7:08             ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found] ` <mailman.6460.1201142559.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-24 16:40   ` DaLoverhino
2008-01-24 18:03     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-24 18:50     ` Rob Wolfe
2008-01-25 20:51       ` DaLoverhino

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