From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard G Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode. Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:32:47 +0100 Message-ID: <605sr0F1p7vlgU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> References: <7b79188f-cb09-46ae-b88c-65b611b39ae1@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <4798C1BD.3030600@gmail.com> <4799F858.5070701@gmail.com> <603eirF1p2ag4U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201520454 5676 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 11:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 12:41:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JJSMG-0004qw-Dc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:41:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJSLp-0007Oy-Mo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:40:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de RkBrG3D3T5MEl6LU2QoLowytRSmaSokpWxwC0nR8rIFhHz4cM= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50.6 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155643 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:51023 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Jan 27, 2008 2:17 PM, Richard G Riley 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 :-;