Re: automatic selection of emacsclient/emacs?

[Dan Elliott <dan-underscore-elliott-at-cox-dot-net@spamispathetic.org>]

Hattuari wrote:
> 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? 

Will I get flammed if I ask what the benefit of running emacs as a 
client (opposed to the "usual" way) would be?  Could this be an 
alternative to using TRAMP?

Thanks.

- dan