From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to use emacsclient as the Gnome system editor? Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:08:08 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85ejrvoktz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87irh9j5nj.fsf@bang.priv.no> <85ac2k27wp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <45631C99.6090307@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164193216 30966 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 11:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:00:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 12:00:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmpps-0003Hu-Az for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:00:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmppr-0007QJ-OL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:00:11 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nVMOsA+kd7tvGMbetbeq0JLqAwM= Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Nov 2006 11:08:25 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 6486b15d.newsspool4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=nB_]YbG2:OR3:3gaE@4IUK 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:38886 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: >> Yes, you are right. However you have also to start emacs server in >> your init files. > > That may be a problem for me, I think. Since my use pattern is to > have multiple emacsen up an running (one for Gnus, and misc stuff, > one for development, and occasionally one running as root, and also > possibly emacsen running on development servers). I've also > CVS-versioned my home directory, so I have the same setup files > everywhere. > > I wonder if there is there some emacs lisp magic for my ~/.emacs, > that could check for a running emacs server, and only start it if > one isn't already running...? That is the default behavior. > None of the server-* functions seems appropriate for this. I'm not > sure what the LEAVE-DEAD argument of server-start does? Is this the > same as what the documentation refers to as the prefix argument? Yes. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum