Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?

[Benjamin Rutt <rutt.4@osu.edu>]

Hattuari <susudata@setidava.kushan.aa> writes:

> Is there a clean way to get Emacs to start as a client when there is an
> available server?  I find it moderately annoying to have to look around to
> see if there is already an instance of Emacs started in order to determine
> if I should enter `emacs' or `emacsclient'. I much prefer running
> emacsclient when I already have one instance of Emacs running.  One option
> is to try and sniff for emacs with ps and filter out the current processes
> such as grep emacs, and (assuming the script I'm running is also called
> emacs) the launch script.  It would seem more correct to directly check to
> see if the service is available.  Is there such a capability? 

I use the following, which I call '$HOME/bin/e'.  I use it as follows:

$ e # opens a window
$ e foo.sh # opens an old or new file
$ e foo.sh:23 # opens foo.sh at line 23

I never have to think if emacs is already loaded or not.  Hope it
helps.

#!/bin/sh

EMACS=emacs

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]
then
    $EMACS ${1+"$@"}
else
    if emacsclient --eval "(setenv \"DISPLAY\" \"$DISPLAY\")" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
	if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
	    emacsclient --eval "(make-frame-on-display \"$DISPLAY\")"
	elif [ $# -lt 10 ]; then
	    for f in $@; do
		# handle file.h:234 paths
		echo $f | egrep ".*:[0-9]+$" >/dev/null
		if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
		    emacsclient -n `echo $f | sed 's/\(.*\):\([0-9]\+\)$/+\2/'` `echo $f | sed 's/\(.*\):\([0-9]\+\)$/\1/'`
		else
		    emacsclient -n $f
		fi
		
	    done
	else
	    echo "`basename $0`: ERROR, opening $# files would take too long"
	fi
    else
	emacs ${1+"$@"} &
    fi
fi



-- 
Benjamin Rutt