resume with arguments in modern emacsen

resume with arguments in modern emacsen

[Daniel]

Since resume.el has become obsolete, does anybody have some tip on how to
achieve the same functionality by some other means? That is, having a suspended
(C-z) emacs open a file the moment it is resumed (fg). I'm usually on non-X11
emacs, and typically not running emacsclient. Perhaps the only solution 
nowdays is emacsclient, but would it even work when emacs is suspended...

Re: resume with arguments in modern emacsen

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.08.2012 um 10:31 schrieb Daniel:

> Since resume.el has become obsolete, does anybody have some tip on how to
> achieve the same functionality by some other means? That is, having a suspended
> (C-z) emacs open a file the moment it is resumed (fg). I'm usually on non-X11
> emacs, and typically not running emacsclient. Perhaps the only solution 
> nowdays is emacsclient, but would it even work when emacs is suspended...
> 
> 
Between suspending GNU Emacs in the background and then putting again into the foreground nothing can happen in GNU Emacs in-between. Nothing changes. When it is again in the foreground it will show the same as in the moment when it was put into the background…

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  Pete

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Re: resume with arguments in modern emacsen

[Daniel]

> Between suspending GNU Emacs in the background and then putting again into
> the foreground nothing can happen in GNU Emacs in-between. Nothing changes.
> When it is again in the foreground it will show the same as in the moment
> when it was put into the background…

Of course. And what resume.el did upon resume was to look in ~/.emacs_args for
a filename which it would open.

Right, after removing the obsoletion mark from resume.el, neat feature works
fine again in 24--it hadn't been broken as I first thought.

Re: resume with arguments in modern emacsen

[Stefan Monnier]

> Right, after removing the obsoletion mark from resume.el, neat feature works
> fine again in 24--it hadn't been broken as I first thought.

Packages marked obsolete are supposed to work still (not sure what you
man by "removing the obsoletion mark"), so if they don't you should
report it as a bug (tho usually the fixes will be minimalist, of
course).

Also if you can't find a replacement for the feature, that's a bug.
I.e. if emacsclient doesn't provide the same functionality, then please
complain via M-x report-emacs-bug.

> Perhaps the only solution nowdays is emacsclient, but would it even
> work when emacs is suspended...

The idea is to use emacsclient -a "", so even when Emacs seems
suspended, the daemon is still listening (basically, the `emacs'
process is not suspended: it's only detached from the tty).


        Stefan