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.
next prev parent 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
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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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