From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reader@newsguy.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Starting emacs in ediff mode. Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:00:03 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ir1evt30.fsf@newsguy.com> 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 1201536055 30229 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 16:00:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:55 +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 17:01:16 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 1JJWQ6-0001p7-JC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:01:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJWPf-0005VK-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:00:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJWPO-0005V8-UR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:00:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJWPM-0005Uw-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJWPM-0005Ut-Ba for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:00:28 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJWPM-0007QF-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:00:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JJWP9-0001gW-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:15 +0000 Original-Received: from adsl-75-3-70-97.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([75.3.70.97]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:15 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by adsl-75-3-70-97.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-75-3-70-97.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zSH2mSYMijSAdf5PwpXNmq3ItqY= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:51024 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > 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. That does not > preclude using it as default viewer/editor in all cases, just the ones > where it is automatically run from a tool that expects it to be done > when emacsclient returns (for example, in many VCS when emacsclient is > used as the editor for the commit logs). Sorry to butt in here... I'm a (lightweight) user of emacs considering starting to use emacsclient. What does your comment mean practically (aside from VCS usage). My usage is pretty basic. Scripting, gnus, file and directory manipulation, bbdb, tramp.... probably a few other things I forgot.