Re: Is it possible to use emacsclient as the Gnome system editor?

[Olive <olive@noemail.org>]

Steinar Bang wrote:
> Platform: Intel Pentium M, Ubuntu Dapper,
> 	  Gnome desktop (2.14.3-0ubuntu1)
> 	  emacs21 21.4a-3ubuntu2
> 
> I'm trying to use emacsclient, instead of gedit, as the default Gnome
> text editor.
> 
> Googling found me this howto:
> 	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=299086
> 
> But this requires that there is a .desktop entry for the replacement
> editor.  On my system there is an emacs21.desktop.  But using that
> would fire up a new emacs for each file opened, and that's not what I
> want. 
> 
> So what I wonder is: is it possible to create an emacsclient.desktop
> entry?  Or is desktop entry for emacsclient a meaningless concept?
> 
> Basically: Is it possible to use emacsclient as the Gnome system
> editor? 
> 
> Thanx!
> 
> 
> - Steinar
> 
> 
> 

To complete what others have said, I start emacs with a (very) small 
script; if a server is running it use it otherwise it launch a new emacs 
process:

#! /bin/sh
emacsclient -n "$@" &> /dev/null || exec emacs "$@"

Olive