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 :-;
next prev 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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