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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnuserv vs Emacsserver
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:04:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzljig85q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uvdu7ebcb.fsf@myhost.sbcglobal.net>

> From: Chetan <Chetan.xspam@xspam.sbcglobal.net>
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:26:28 -0800
> 
> 1. My version of gnuclient starts emacs (if it can find it) if it
> cannot connect to a running instance.

I believe "emacsclient -a" can do that, too.

> 2. Irrespective of whether I am running emacs 21 or 22, it can still
> connect.

Do you really need to run Emacs 21 from time to time?

> 3. The biggest irritant is that if I start another instance of emacs,
> either by mistake or because I want to do something in a console
> window, it clobbers my previous instance.

You can arrange for it to not do that in your .emacs: just don't start
the server if there's evidence that one other instance is already up
and running.

> 4. I need to change too many places in the system registry where it
> invokes gnuclient.

You could have a script called gnuclient.cmd that just invoked
emacsclient.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-29 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1447.1227901272.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-28 22:26 ` Gnuserv vs Emacsserver Chetan
2008-11-29 10:04   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1476.1227953070.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-29 13:10     ` Will Parsons
2008-12-02  3:32   ` Chetan
2008-11-30 18:46 Magnus Berg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-28 19:41 Magnus Berg
2008-11-28 19:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-27 13:03 Magnus Berg
2008-11-27 14:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-26 13:14 Magnus Berg
2008-11-26 15:13 ` Lennart Borgman

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